*If I'm shown statistics* ... not every request has to be backed up with statistics! People are simply asking you to use something more common, like close-vote-please instead of referring to it as something obscure as a chaos emerald (No, I'm not interested in knowing why or what it is).
If people with gold badges don't mind being pinged when there's a question they can bindingly close, fine, but like Geek said, it does come across as trying to shortcut yet another thing.j