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I have sometimes wondered if it wouldn't make sense to be able to close questions just because they are either too unimportant (asking for very, very minor things like e.g. "Should I have put a question mark at the end of the subject line on an email inquiring about a position?", things along these lines sometimes get asked) or that are really, really easy to find out just by googling the thing (e.g. this very recent question which definitely took longer to write than a quick web search for the same issue would have taken).

Basically, I wonder if it would make sense to have a close reason for questions being to trivial/minor etc.?

I have sometimes wondered if it wouldn't make sense to be able to close questions just because they are either too unimportant (asking for very, very minor things like e.g. "Should I have put a question mark at the end of the subject line on an email inquiring about a position?", things along these lines sometimes get asked) or that are really, really easy to find out just by googling the thing (e.g. this very recent question which definitely took longer to write than a quick web search for the same issue would have taken.

Basically, I wonder if it would make sense to have a close reason for questions being to trivial/minor etc.?

I have sometimes wondered if it wouldn't make sense to be able to close questions just because they are either too unimportant (asking for very, very minor things like e.g. "Should I have put a question mark at the end of the subject line on an email inquiring about a position?", things along these lines sometimes get asked) or that are really, really easy to find out just by googling the thing (e.g. this very recent question which definitely took longer to write than a quick web search for the same issue would have taken).

Basically, I wonder if it would make sense to have a close reason for questions being to trivial/minor etc.?

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Would it make sense to be able to close for being "too trivial"?

I have sometimes wondered if it wouldn't make sense to be able to close questions just because they are either too unimportant (asking for very, very minor things like e.g. "Should I have put a question mark at the end of the subject line on an email inquiring about a position?", things along these lines sometimes get asked) or that are really, really easy to find out just by googling the thing (e.g. this very recent question which definitely took longer to write than a quick web search for the same issue would have taken.

Basically, I wonder if it would make sense to have a close reason for questions being to trivial/minor etc.?