Question: I've noticed *and used* the new (at least for me) button `Leave Open`, but I can't find any explanation as to the implication of clicking it.

I've found a highly voted [status-declined](/questions/tagged/status-declined "show questions tagged 'status-declined'") question:

[How about a “Vote not to close” option to counter the “Vote to close”?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/125/184576)

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> ...How about, as soon as there's one vote to close, there should be an option to counter the close vote, something like "vote not to close" or whatever. This would then bring the "Vote to close" number down by one.
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Is this that is happening? Or something else?

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By reading the FAQ, there's no mention to this new action... so I'm assuming that an update is coming to the last paragraph of [Why are some questions closed?](https://stackoverflow.com/faq#close):

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> Users with 3000 reputation can cast up to 50 close votes per day. When a question reaches 5 close votes, it is marked as closed, and will no longer accept answers. Closed questions may be opened by casting reopen votes in the same manner. However, you may only vote to close or reopen a question once. 
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Answer: 
Questions' close votes [age away](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/97556/close-votes-expire-too-soon-for-low-traffic-tags) much slower if the question has less than 100 views, so as to give enough folks time to see and review it. Questions with close votes stay in the review queue until they are closed or the votes expire.

But if enough people (currently 3) select "Leave Open" within the review queue, the question will be immediately removed from the queue (not shown to any more reviewers) and the aging starts immediately.

This doesn't prevent it from being closed, mind you - if someone visits the question directly and votes to close it, that'll both count toward the 5 votes needed to close it and stall the aging for another four days (14 days if it has less than 100 views) - but it will both reduce the number of people viewing it and hasten the removal of votes on questions for which there is clearly no support for closing.

### See also: [26,000 questions have close votes, now what?](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/111734/26-000-questions-have-close-votes-now-what)
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I wish! As explained in [New Feature: Community Review Tasks - Now in Beta](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/139536):

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