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I've noticed and used the new (at least for me) button Leave Open, but I can't find any explanation as to the implication of clicking it.

I've found a highly voted question:

How about a “Vote not to close” option to counter the “Vote to close”?

...How about, as soon as there's one vote to close, there should be an option to counter the close vote, something like "vote not to close" or whatever. This would then bring the "Vote to close" number down by one.

Is this that is happening? Or something else?

By reading the FAQ, there's no mention to this new action... so I'm assuming that an update is coming to the last paragraph of Why are some questions closed?:


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up vote 54 down vote accepted

Normally, a question must hit 100 views before close votes age away, so as to give enough folks time to see and review it. Questions with close votes stay in the review queue until they are closed or the votes expire.

But if enough people (currently 3) select "Do Not Close" within the review queue, the question will be immediately removed from the queue (not shown to any more reviewers) and the aging starts immediately.

This doesn't prevent it from being closed, mind you - if someone visits the question directly and votes to close it, that'll both count toward the 5 votes needed to close it and stall the aging for another four days - but it will both reduce the number of people viewing it and hasten the removal of votes on questions for which there is clearly no support for closing.

In the future, we may also use this information to feed a re-open review queue.

See also: 26,000 questions have close votes, now what?

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Tks for the clarification! Do you know if the FAQ eventually be updated regarding this new option? –  Zuul Jul 15 '12 at 21:13
@Zuul: we'll be beefing up the docs for it as we move toward full deployment; right now, mostly interested in seeing how folks use it (without yards of external documentation) and what breaks. –  Shog9 Jul 15 '12 at 21:15
So at the moment there is no difference between Do Not Close and Not Sure? –  Bob Jul 24 '12 at 14:29
@Bob: yes, there is - for starters, you don't get any review credit for "not sure". But more importantly, "Do Not Close" keeps a record of who disagrees with closure - you can definitely expect this to influence the likelihood of the question being closed in the future. –  Shog9 Jul 25 '12 at 17:12
@Shog9: Do diamond mods get a "supervote" on the "Do Not Close" button? –  Robert Harvey Oct 17 '12 at 21:19
@Robert yes they do –  Shog9 Oct 17 '12 at 23:41
Now that "Do Not Close" changed to "Leave Open" is this a good idea to edit all posts containing "Do Not Close"? –  Shadow Wizard Nov 12 '12 at 7:29
Does choosing 'Edit' count as 'Leave Open'? –  galacticninja Apr 9 '13 at 4:03
Yes, @galacticninja –  Shog9 Apr 9 '13 at 4:25
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Is this that is happening?

I wish! As explained in New Feature: Community Review Tasks - Now in Beta:


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Always forgetting to read the fine-print. Tks! :) –  Zuul Jul 15 '12 at 4:31
I've gone with Shog9♦ answer, but I've upvoted yours nonetheless. Tks again for pointing out the fine-print :) –  Zuul Jul 15 '12 at 21:15
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