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  • related: Closure Vote - Changing closure reason
    – Mp0int
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 13:21
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    I see a problem when I vote to close a question as "unclear what you are asking", OP edits the question, now it is clear, but offtopic/duplicate/whatever. In this case, I'd like to change my close vote.
    – Johannes Kuhn
    Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 13:43
  • "if subsequent edits render the question unsuitable" you should roll back to the version that was suitable.
    – Mołot
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 12:56
  • @Mołot Perhaps it wasn't great wording, but imagine if the changes to the question make it into a duplicate? That shouldn't be rolled back. That should be closed.
    – Duncan Jones
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 13:00
  • @Duncan if it used to be a valid non-dupe, it should be rolled back :)
    – Mołot
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 13:02
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    @Mołot Nope. I disagree. The important thing is that the question reflects what the OP wants to ask. If, as we discover more details, it's a dupe then that's a good thing and we should close it.
    – Duncan Jones
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 13:03
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    @Duncan if there was details lacking, it should be put on hold as too broad or unclear. So in that case there was no valid revision to roll back to. And chameleon question by all means should be rolled back.
    – Mołot
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 13:08
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    A more common failure mode in my experience: I vote to close, somebody else edits the question to make it suitable, I retract, and then the OP rolls back the edit. I'm very reluctant to retract close votes on small sites (where there aren't that many active users with VtC in the first place) for that reason.
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Jan 15, 2014 at 17:20
  • One use case that I don't see here, is voting to close for the wrong reason accidentally. This just happened to me on this question: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/32772/… It makes me quite angry that I can't correct my vote. For this reason, I don't see a reason why there should be a rep wall on it. Can anyone give me a reason why I shouldn't be able to change it?
    – TARDIS Maker
    Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 1:34
  • I too feel the need for this feature. I am not able to vote again after retracting. stackoverflow.com/questions/65444881/…
    – Shridhar R Kulkarni
    Commented Dec 27, 2020 at 5:04
  • It would at least be nice if retraction restrictions expired like close votes do, so one could vtc again a month after retracting. This would help with curation, and perhaps reduce the risk of close vote wars as the number of users who care about old questions is relatively small.
    – snakecharmerb
    Commented Jan 20 at 17:24