can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask fedora?

[Pete Travis]

On 03/25/2015 12:00 AM, Pete Travis wrote:
> On 03/24/2015 10:51 PM, David Gay wrote:
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>>> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:13:07 PM
>>> Subject: can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask fedora?
>>>
>>> I might have complained about this before, but now I'm serious. :) It's
>>> incredibly counterintuitive and weird to have questions closed because
>>> they're answered, I guess unless they're an individual issue that only
>>> affects one person. Anything that might be helpful later and which has
>>> a helpful answer should be the _opposite_ of closed!
>>>
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>>> Matthew Miller
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>> I forgot about this! Closing the question removes it from visibility/searchability, right? If so, killing this feature makes sense to me.
>>
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> Closing the question adds a blockquote that says "This question was
> closed by 'person' because 'the question has been answered and the
> answer was accepted'".  Users can continue to comment, suggest answers,
> edit, post comments as answers, contribute inaccurate answers, whatever,
> as long as they aren't deterred by the closed banner.  Basically, I
> agree about it being a silly reason to close a question, except that it
> might do things that it isn't actually doing. So, +1 from me, let's turn
> it off.
>
> Amusingly, the only way to access the list of close reasons is to have
> moderation turned on, and start choosing reasons to reject a post :)
> I'll remove this soon, unless someone gets to it or strenuously objects
> soon.
>
> --Pete
>
>

I was mistaken here. 'reject' reasons in the moderation view are 
configurable; close reasons are hard-coded.  I'll work up and test a 
patch to rip it out, unless someone else gets to it first.

-- 
-- Pete