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Should Webmasters allow 3 votes to close a question rather than 5?

I think the numbers speak for themselves. Currently, if a moderator doesn't close a question it's likely not going to be closed. I agree that we should lower the vote to close threshold to three votes....
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Should Webmasters allow 3 votes to close a question rather than 5?

As of now this site setting has been changed. I went through the stats over the past couple of years and I can see that the moderators are doing the bulk of the closures - in fact, they've been ...
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Can't close as duplicate: "An error occurred while searching; please try again"

I found a work around. The search doesn't like /questions/75909/how-to-fight-off-google-analytics-referrer-spammers in the box, but I can remove the URL slug and it will search just fine: /...

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