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What makes you vote to close a question?

I vote to close when it's clearly homework. I vote to close when the question is severely ill-posed. I also tend to vote to close (more precisely to move to math.SE) when the problem could be given …
Igor Khavkine's user avatar
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Encouraging new users to provide a name or a nickname

But that's a totally different discussion. …
Igor Khavkine's user avatar
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Should MathOverflow request suggested tags feature?

Yes, I think this could be a good thing! Tagging is often a thankless or even forgotten task. I think machine assistance can reduce the cognitive load needed for the task, hence encourage it.
Igor Khavkine's user avatar
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Customize the modal window for the first-time askers

Perhaps the following ideas are outside the scope or the original question. But in an ideal world, I think it would be useful to make the question editing window a bit more interactive for first time …
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