For questions about the "on hold" status, which occurs for the first five days that a question is closed. Please don't use this tag for any question that merely mentions "on hold" in it.
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Is it acceptable to ask again question that is “on hold”, reworded, but no one cares to reopen it?
I have a question: What is GUI toolkit better architecture?, that was put on hold, because of the opinion based nature.
I edited it and now the question asks for specific questions, that have exact ...
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Titles should not be able to literally contain “[on hold]”
A user just posted this question:
Ubuntu booting stuck at checking battery status after upgrade from 10.04 to 11.10 [on hold]
The title literally contains [on hold]. Before the closing process was ...
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FAQ is missing the meaning of [on hold]. Should that be added?
Under the topic:
Working with posts
In the list:
What does it mean when a question is...
closed?
locked?
deleted?
protected?
The status [on hold] is missing.
Should this be added?
There is a ...
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“Comments on deleted questions cannot be upvoted” when the question is on hold
I received the red popup message, "Comments on deleted questions cannot be upvoted", when the question was on hold, not deleted!
It appears that the message just hasn't been adjusted since the ...
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Another Option Reviewing Low Quality Posts
When reviewing a low quality post. The whole point of the review is to maintain high standard of the site. There is a gap between answers that should be deleted or just improved bit.
I can see this ...
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Are ERP questions off-topic on SO?
I asked a question earlier today in SO. It was about Oracle ERP. Those who know about ERP knows that it is about forms, reports and setups. I noticed the erp tag in SO and thought that questions about ...
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How long will a question be in on-hold status?
When will a question be closed in Stack Overflow, i.e. transform from "on hold" to "closed"?
I searched about it on Meta and found five days as the answer; but this question has been on hold for ...
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Put on hold as off-topic
There are three questions here, here, and here on Stack Overflow. But, it surprises me because, the first two has been on hold while the last one is still not. They all are asking the same ...
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Migrating [on-hold] questions
When will [on-hold] questions actually be migrated?
I've seeing lots of reasonable questions being put "on hold", just because someone deemed some other SE site more appropriate. Questions are being ...
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Correct process for migration of a question “on hold”
There are many questions that are posted under Facebook tags which are more end user support questions which are perfect for Web Applications which deals with end user support questions. Since the ...
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Shouldn't flags be dismissed if a question is closed? [duplicate]
Yesterday I flagged How to exit application by moving mouse or any key press over axShockwaveFlash in c#.net? with a close reason. When I looked at my flagging history, it was "on hold", but my flag ...
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“on hold” when should have been migrated
Run external program instead of builtin
It appears all 5 voters suggested Super User, yet the question was not migrated, but put "on hold".
What gives?
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Why was this question put on hold?
I am trying to better understand why this Writing application for Windows Mobile 6.1 options? was put on hold for being opinion based.
Note: It was not my question, but I provided an answer.
In my ...
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Advanced search term for “on hold” distinguished from “closed”
The advanced search keywords include “closed:yes” and “closed:no” for searching for questions that are closed and not closed, respectively. Now that there is a new status, [on hold], is there a ...
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What common parlance best refers to a question “closed” under the new system?
I love the change from "Closed" to "On Hold," and it makes a lot of sense. Not going over that ground.
The problem I am seeing is that we still refer to "closing" a question in common parlance. ...
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Guidance for how to reopen a question that is on hold or closed
It would be good to have some easy to follow guidance for how to get a question reopened that is on hold or closed. What I would find useful as a user with a couple of months experience of ...
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Disallow VLQ flags on “on hold” questions
If a question is "on hold" - basically telling the user to improve it - there is little to no reason to flag it as VLQ. So I suggest to disallow this flag type on closed questions.
If a question ...
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Off-topic on hold box says “closed”
This is a screenshot of an on-hold box on Electrical Engineering, but my question applies to all the sites.
The box says: "The users who voted to close". Is it by-design that this box says "close"? ...
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Custom off topic dialog allows incomplete sentences from the prefill [duplicate]
In these two comments, the user has been able to submit a custom off topic reason that says:
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about
While it's not really feasible to check for ...
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Correct the “about” page to reference the new “on hold” policy
This is a bit of a nitpick, but on the about page on StackOverflow, it states that:
Questions that need improvement may be closed until someone fixes them.
This should probably be tweaked given ...
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Closing question as off-topic and not on a suggested site [duplicate]
When flagging/voting to on-hold a question, I seem to have missed the option to simply flag as off-topic or belonging elsewhere on stack overflow.
I'm presented with the following list:
general ...
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On-hold questions should have on-hold music [closed]
Since a closed question is now listed as "on hold" for the first five days, I think the page should play hold music (autostart on load). This feature would supply the following advantages:
It would ...
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Wait until after “on hold” for the auto-−1
Since we're doing this whole Summer of Love Redux with closure becoming onholdure for five days so askers don't get insulted, I think the automatic −1 that comes with closure should also be delayed ...
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How to put question on hold? [duplicate]
I have seen that many questions are now marked [on hold]. I have already enough reputation to cast close votes on questions but I don't see how can I put questions on hold. How can I do it? Is it done ...
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Is an option missing in the new off-topic reasons?
I really like the new option structure when flagging - I have in particular missed the "Minimal understanding" option.
However, I think that one option is missing. If we look at this rambling ...
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Make it clearer that some of the close / on-hold reasons have additional options
It's not that clear that the Off Topic option has some additional choices after it. I suggest that by adding an ellipsis to the end of the Off Topic wording (and probably the Duplicate one too for ...
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Asking questions about previous answers
After coming across this question, I was intrigued. I recently studied NP problems and was attempting to answer it but eventually realized I couldn't (with anything more than a vague guess). So ...
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How do moderators update custom off-topic reasons for their site?
Now that the on-hold/close chane is live, how do site moderators update their off-topic reasons? Our list is rather sparse, and we are starting to get complaints questions about which to use.
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Search Results list “on hold” questions as “closed”
The search results of SO list questions that are "on hold" as "closed". According to the new closing changes they should be displayed as [on hold].
Example:
...
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“unclear what you're asking” hold reason looks awkward
For the "unclear what you're asking" hold reason, the lack of quotation marks makes the phrasing in the "on hold" box confusing and awkward:
put on hold as unclear what you're asking by definitely ...
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Can I have a straight up *real* off topic reason for moderators only?
I recently came across this piece of spam:
Now, it's spam, and it's been deleted, but a lot of times, we get questions that are just plain off topic by legitimate users, and not suitable for any ...
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This shouldn't have been put on-hold
I recently stumbled across this meta post.
It's about the change in the color of the accept tick mark on Stack Overflow - an honorable thing to complain about. I don't like it either. However, the ...
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When is the new closing system going to be turned loose?
I'm 3k on SO, and I'm anxious for the new closing/on-holding system to break out of its meta prison.
What is the ETA for the new system to come to other sites?
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“on hold” Question is actually removed [duplicate]
When looking through my helpful flags I saw that alot of questions I had where "[on hold]", like this:
But when I clicked on the question I got the 'Page not found' notice saying that the question ...
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Abandoned questions and the new 'unclear what you're asking'
With the new 'on hold' system replacing the closing of questions, is it now acceptable to vote to put questions 'on hold' if the original questioner has apparently abandoned the question after being ...
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Change “On Hold” wording to make grammatical sense
I recently stumbled upon an on hold question. The verbiage is a bit... awkward:
on hold as off-topic by Al Everett, Mysticial, Doorknob, Sha Wiz Dow Ard, Josh Caswell 18 mins ago
This ...
