We clearly need a set of well thought out custom close reasons ("off-topic because…") to ease our lives.
Currently we only have one:
Questions requesting personal medical advice are off-topic here. Nobody here can properly address your health issues. Such questions should be taken to your personal physician who can examine you and access your full medical records. For more information, please see this meta post
Since the process for closing questions is meant to give the asker a chance to improve his question, a close-reason should fit the issues present in a question and give valid and valuable feedback to the poster. While this can be done with "I'm voting to close this question, because…" this is tedious to write out if we encounter the same reasons over and over again.
What custom close reasons would make things easier in your view?
Suggestions on this issue are not limited. But we should be aware that we can only select and keep active exactly 3, in words: three, reasons. These have to be very well phrased to catch most cases.
Note: there's a 400 character limit on the close reason. Please be judicious about the use of links and try to be concise in general.
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As mentioned in https://health.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/264/choosing-custom-off-topic-close-reasons
Some guidelines are:
At a bare minimum, off-topic reasons should identify a specific topic considered inappropriate. If you're struggling to be specific, find an example of a question that is off-topic and discuss the factors that make it inappropriate for the site.
Whenever possible, try to explain why a given topic is not allowed - this is your chance to answer the inevitable question once rather than repeating it every time a question must be closed.
Provide resources that will aid askers in solving their problems: either instructions for asking the question in a more suitable fashion, links to a different site where the question may be considered on-topic.
Be as concise as possible. Save lengthy explanations and examples for meta FAQs that can be discussed and refined over time, and then include links to these in the off-topic reasons. Don't depend on anyone following these links though; keep critical information and guidance in the reason text itself.
I have proposed close reasons below. Please:
- Add additional answers including other close reasons.
- Vote for the close reasons you think are appropriate and accurately reflect the scope of the site.
- Comment on reasons that you think are basically appropriate but need an adjustment in wording.
To reiterate and explain, currently we have:
- Questions requesting personal medical advice are off-topic here. Nobody here can properly address your health issues. Such questions should be taken to your personal physician who can examine you and access your full medical records. For more information, please see this meta post.
- This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network
- Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)
Making "personal medical advice" one of the three slots to fill. There can be displayed 5 slots on that page, so we can just add two more now or add two and rephrase or replace our most beloved "personal medical advice" (not that I think we really should do that).
