@Giorgio Why the name change? :)

First, let me say I read all of the above, and I understand it. I am still bothered at the number of questions that have had actions done in a unilateral way by Jonathan. This is supposed to be a community moderated exchange. And yet, a (largish) number of questions have had actions done on them by a moderator, instead of enough time being allowed to the rest of us to do our "jobs". This would not be a problem, if I ended up agreeing with the actions taken, but in several cases, I do not.

I fully understand that this means that the moderators seem to lose some of their 'rights' to also be part of the larger community, but don't you see the difference between 5 of us all agreeing with a closure and a single mod doing so?

You know what, never mind. Perhaps I am just being too sensitive. It's all good.

@JonathanReez I have told you this before, I also think you close many things way too quickly. I know you cannot vote anymore but you should have thought of that earlier, you really need to be more careful now.

Fixing it after the fact, pinging you on chat is not good enough. There is a chilling effect and a disruption, this is and should remain an open site where everybody can contribute without first having to defend their question, prove they respect the rules, etc.

Personally, I think travel.stackexchange.com/questions/106096/… is not obvious at all. There can be a debate about closing it, there should not be any debate about the fact that it's not clear-cut or “an exact duplicate”.

And 95% not reopened without edits is not the right standard to judge this. There are valid questions that would be abandoned (and thus appear to support your decision, whereas in fact this is a consequence of it) because seeing it closed by a mod is a slap in the face. There are also many question that could with an edit but it's far less disruptive to comment or even edit yourself than closing first.

Sometimes good answers come out of sub-par questions, something that cannot happen if you are close-happy.

We really don't have that many questions and plenty of tools to deal with them, there is no downside to taking a little time.

Same thing for the archive by the way, what's the point of closing an old question with a ton of votes and useful material?

@JoErNanO @JonathanReez please take a look at 3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/5056/… it appears to have been mis-migrated

@Relaxed I propose the following - I will no longer close any questions that have been posted in the last 3 days

this would give the community plenty of time to close or answer the question

@CGCampbell yes, I wrote a comment on the original post. Unfortunately I cannot fix it now, it was supposed to go on Expats :/

@Relaxed The only downside I see sometimes is users grabbing rep from off-topic questions.This is imho a behaviour we should not allow nor encourage.

3d printing is the first on the list and the mobile site sometimes glitcges

@Relaxed And sometimes closing old questions happens when these are off-topic per today's standards.

@Relaxed we have had this debate on Meta before - travel.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1450/…

ok, btw I've flagged that question in 3D to their mods for a re-migrations

@CGCampbell If it gets closed on 3d the migration will be rejected. FYI. :)

@Relaxed well, at least with Schengen questions we are close to achieving 100% coverage of all the scenarios, which is great

I've reopened the EU FUP question

@JoErNanO as a buffer from the recent acrimony and note the second response became an orphan on an unrelated site LOL. It's all good; TY.

@Giorgio You got me worried there. :)