


But the documentation for this appears to be contradictory:

According to the help center


But according to this Faq entry


And this help center entry says:




Is it any edits or just edits from the original asker?



From a time when I probably knew something about this:




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    Are you sure also posts closed by moderators should follow that last rule, for example this one? This does explain why we sometimes hit some meta drama, those posts get noticed in the re-open queue. – rene Jan 14 '17 at 20:11
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    Yeah, I'm pretty sure about that, @rene; mods can make mistakes too. And... Keep in mind, these can also show up in the reopen queue years later if the question isn't deleted for whatever reason. If you get something popular that gets closed but not deleted and folks keep finding it, we're not really minimizing the grief by keeping it out of review, we're just pushing that grief on arbitrary searchers. – Shog9 Jan 14 '17 at 20:23

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