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For reference, these are the two questions at issue: Detect if an element has been resized via javascript? and -moz-resize event The askers have completely different questions arising out of two ...

I found at least 5 different questions about my problem here in StackOverflow; unfortunately none of the answers helped me fix the issue, and then I stumbled upon the solution quite by chance. Now my ...

Here is the problem: I searched for a certain answer and found 3 relevant posts in different but related questions. So I answered one of them and duplicated it to others. One of the reviewers ...

I've noticed a number of questions on a particular topic that are very similar. Is it considered bad manners to copy and paste a common response to the similar questions? If it is considered bad ...

Possible Duplicate: Is it acceptable to add a duplicate answer to several questions? I have just written the following almost identical answers: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9480689/575530 https:/...

What is the consensus or policy on crossposting answers on a single Stack Exchange site or across different Stack Exchange sites? (I searched and found a lot of questions and answers about ...

Some time ago I created these two questions: "How to build nested responses in an Apigility driven application with a ZfcBase-DbMapper based model?" and "How to access and manipulate data in Apigility ...

What is the XY problem? When asking questions, how do I recognize when I'm falling into it? How do I avoid it? Return to FAQ index

What should I do when I see a question that is a duplicate of another one? Should I answer it? Should I downvote it? Should I comment? Should I edit the question to indicate it's a duplicate? If I ...

There are discussions on Meta already for some time now about the potential usage of bots on Stack Exchange (SE). The earliest I could find goes back to 2009, but there have been others [link], [link]...

From time to time, discussions arise about the merits of posting identical answers to (allegedly) related-but-not-duplicate questions. In almost all of these, someone brings up the same argument that ...

I thought that this question C# newbie List question was a duplicate (sorry, as a noob meta user I can only post one link, please follow my comment on that question), but other folks don't seem to ...

I just saw this question asked on SO: Does try/finally ignore exceptions? It's really similar to, or duplicate of: In C# will the Finally block be executed in a try, catch, finally if an unhandled ...

Recently I noticed these three late answers in the review panel. Two of them are exactly the same and the other one adds an additional line. Can't push to github through proxy What is my best option ...

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