The idea of a close reason specifically for modded Minecraft tech support has come up time and time and time again. Since we have recently revisited the wording for off-topic Minecraft questions, now is a good time to tackle this problem one (hopefully) final time.
As I've mentioned in reply to the most recent Meta question on the subject, we only have four close reason slots available for use. If we want a new reason for modded Minecraft, we'll have to replace one of the existing close reasons: "recommendations", "unreleased or illegal", "game identification", or "game design or development".
Users with at least 10k reputation can check various close stats on this page, but in short, these are the least used close reasons over the past 90 days:
- Unreleased or illegal: 0.58% of total
- Game design and development: 1.35% of total
- Game identification: 2.03% of total
- Recommendations: 3.47% of total
And for comparison:
- Modded Minecraft (from my counting): 12.74% of total
As such, we're looking for a consensus on two issues.:
First, which close reason we want to replace, if any. Second
Second, what the wording of the new close reason should be. Keep in mind that close reasons can be at most 400 characters long, including link syntax.
