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I was just playing with our site's example newsletter and found it contained a link to a merged (and therefore 'closed') question under the "Can you answer these?" title. It doesn't make sense for this type of question to show there.

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The question was merged almost 24 hours ago so I don't think this is a caching issue.

Could someone please check?

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  • if the question is not closed, this means new answers can arrive. That's.. not good.. for a merged question.
    – Jeff Atwood
    Commented Aug 10, 2011 at 9:04
  • @JeffAtwood I now understand the behaviour, but why aren't merged questions automatically closed as exact dupes? It's confusing...
    – Alex Angas
    Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 0:55
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    Merging locks them, so they can't actually get new answers, but other parts of the system check close state, so it really should auto-close upon merge
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 21:37

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We will only allow merge to happen if one of the questions being merged is currently closed.

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