New close reasons: unclear, too broad, opinion-based, and custom sub-reasons off-topic

Question

There will be changes in close reasons in the next few days:

• “not constructive” and “not a real question” are replaced by

  • “unclear what you're asking”
  • “too broad”
  • “primarily opinion-based”
    
    

• “off-topic” can be refined with predefined sub-reasons. These sub-reasons can cover common motifs that are not obvious from the site name, or cases where we would formerly have used “too localized”, which will disappear.

• Closed questions will be labelled as “on hold” for 5 days, and “closed” afterwards.

Should we have predefined close reasons?

Answer 1

Looking at the most recent questions that have been closed as off-topic, I see:

• A question on Drupal that probably should have been closed as NARQ
• An overly broad web development question
• A web app feature request
• A question on how easy it would be to install some software (presumably a web app); I think it should have been NARQ
• Asking for experiences in unsolicited contact of people through social media
• A question about building a Facebook app
• A question about Gmail on Android security (migrated to Android Enthusiasts)
• A question about integrating Google Play Music into a Linux music player
• A question about legal characters in email
• A question about integrating contacts on an Android phone with a task manager (migrated to Android Enthusiasts)
• A question on browser functionality (migrated to Super User)
• A request for web app recommendations for "lifetime" email addresses; probably should have been closed as NC
• A JavaScript error in someone's code
• A request for web app recommendations for a clothing store; should have been closed as NC
• A question about embedding reports in a web app someone is developing
• An app recommendation for translating PDFs; probably should have been closed as NC
• A request for a web app recommendation for community management; probably should have been closed as NC
• A programming issue with Google Maps
• A problem with a Facebook app being developed
• A question about email addresses with Salesforce.com. (There is apparently a saleforce.stackexchange.com)
• A request for a web app recommendation for data entry. I would expect NC
• A request for a web site so someone can re-build iGoogle
• A PHP programming question
• A question about playing audio in a web app being developed
• A question on how to get Microsoft Outlook to send/receive Gmail. Migrated to Super User
• A problem with putting a Facebook "Like" button on a web page. Migrated to Stack Overflow
• An overly broad JavaScript question. There's so little information, though, it could arguably have been closed as NARQ
• A request for recommendation of a website to "communicate" with contractors. NARQ or NC would have been better, I think
• A question about the security of third-party authentication in a custom web app. Migrated to Webmasters
• A question about code mysteriously appearing on a custom web site
• A JavaScript question. Migrated to Stack Overflow
• A request for recommendations of a simple online SQL database
• A question on a keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome
• A question about a hacked WordPress installation
• A question about Google's Pagespeed service for a custom app. Migrated to Webmasters

All of this is in addition to several successfully migrated questions (to Web Masters) asking about Google Search and SEO.

Clearly we need a custom reason:

you're asking a question about building a web application. Programming questions should go on [Stack Overflow]

Since we don't want to migrate "crap", we should probably also cover:

• SEO
• Maintaining your own site/installation
• Browsers and other desktop software
• Bug Tracker question: The question is more of a feature-request/bug report for the web app and is better asked as a question to the webapp developer

But otherwise I think (so far) the new reasons cover most issues.