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39 questions linked to/from Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version
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Visitor automagically transported to Original Question: Status by design or fluke? [duplicate]
If someone visits a question without an answer, that is closed as a duplicate, the person will automatically be sent to the original question. Consequently, it will be impossible to view the contents ...
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Is there a new automatic redirect for duplicate questions? [duplicate]
I feel like this has happened to me several times today, though this is the only example I have saved a link for.
Recently, when I click on a question on a site's main page that's been marked [...
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Non existent question suggested as duplicate [duplicate]
On English Stack Exchange, when I try asking a new question with the title:"Be available" V "Be available everywhere", the search box then proceeds to show me a list of possible ...
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Are dupes being redirected for non-logged in users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version
I try to go to my question here with is a duplicate of another ...
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Problematic sharing of a closed question that is linked to another answer on mobile [duplicate]
I was trying to share a link to the question How can I plot this Cartesian Equation in Geometry Nodes? that was closed and marked as duplicate.
I believe the question is not a duplicate, so I wanted ...
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Clicking duplicate question: different redirect across sites? [duplicate]
I clicked a question marked as duplicate on Money.se:
(Search https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scams, click on the one with title Tax consequences for moving funds from my U.S. ...
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Question pointing to wrong question when not logged in [duplicate]
I found this really weird bug just now... In here the question link is redirected to wrong question when you are not logged-in, but when you log in again everything seems fine...
take a look here...
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Why are some duplicated posts redirected to their duplicate sources instead of the requested link? [duplicate]
Recently I noticed strange behavior when viewing posts "marked as duplicate" on certain Stack Exchange sites. Here are some examples:
Travel.SE: My arrival at Heathrow Airport is one day earlier ...
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Question's link brings me to incorrect page [duplicate]
I tried clicking on the top question's link on this page (Buying at a lower price [duplicate]): https://money.stackexchange.com/questions?page=1051&sort=votes
However, when I click on it, it ...
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Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
With the new Duplicate close ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered, zero-score questions after a year?
Related to Meta Super User efforts:
Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
and Meta Server Fault efforts:
Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions
We already auto-remove ...
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Documentation for Stack Exchange engine URLs?
I have found mentions of various Stack Exchange engine URLs (/question/NNNN, /question/NNNN/question-title-spelled-out, /answer/NNNN, /user/NNNN, /q/NNNN, /a/NNNN, /u/NNNN, etc.) scattered around in ...
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Should we stop auto-deleting dupe-closed questions?
In this meta post, Shog9 writes:
But don't delete duplicates
Seriously, don't. Unless they're literally word-for-word duplicates, just leave them be - folks tend to find all sorts of different ways ...
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Is it encouraged to intentionally post duplicates for searchability?
I know that according to Dr. Strangedupe, leaving existing duplicate questions is good for searchability. But what about intentionally asking a duplicate question with different terms?
This comment ...
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Why are duplicates not being merged?
I see more and more exact duplicates on SO. Instead of being merged they are being simply closed. I think this is very big disservice to SO. Why don't moderators merge duplicates? Why don't owners of ...
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Would a Stack Exchange site devoted to military-related matters be off-topic? [duplicate]
On Area 51, there were at least two proposals. Both were deleted.
Proposals with insufficient activity are subject to removal. Occasionally, proposals may also be removed for reasons of moderation: ...
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How to open duplicated question without being redirected?
I'm looking for some special parameter (like ?redirect=no, or something), which will prevent the redirection for the question from non-authenticated users.
Currently the questions are opened ...
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Add a toast notification when an anonymous user follows a link to an unanswered duplicate
For many years now, anonymous users who access a link to a question with no answers that's closed as a duplicate have been redirected to the duplicate target (so long as there's only one target). ...
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Deleted duplicates should show the duplicate target(s)
Some questions on Stack Exchange sites get deleted, but they are still linked from various other places on the internet. I will use this deleted question from Mathematics Stack Exchange as an example....
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Are there any questions closed by 5 moderators?
Inspired by this question on Worldbuilding Meta, where a user noted that a question was closed by two ♦ moderators:
For some people it might be obvious what happened here: one of the moderators ...
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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?
When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit.
I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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Answering duplicates
I've seen users of various Stack Exchange sites marking a question as duplicate and even closing it. But new users may be unaware that their question already exists and also has an answer. If it were ...
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Unclear policy for duplication by inclusion
I asked a question ("Meaning of acronym SSO"), which was "closed as exact duplicate" as another ("How is std::string implemented?"). But the close requests triggered a discussion, in the comments, ...
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On redirected duplicates, show linkback to original
This is related to the comments on my previous post: Are dupes being redirected for non-logged in users?
Can we please put a linkback to the original question on all posts that were redirected (...
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What is the minimum reputation amount required to view questions without replies tagged as "duplicate""?
When not logged in, attempting to visit a question that is marked as duplicate of another and doesn't have any replies, redirects to the original question (i.e. the question displayed in the "possible ...
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Could StackExchange embed original questions and answers in their duplicate links?
Over in the AskUbuntu meta, I found it worrying that many search engines direct people to duplicates because their titles are more searchable. Often (or so I guess from looking at the viewcounts), ...
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My question is not shared in LinkedIn when I copy the link
One of my questions was closed for being a duplicate. When I share it to dev.to it's shared. The problem is when I try to share it via copy link to LinkedIn, it fetches the duplicate question instead ...
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Disable the automatic redirect to duplicates when the referrer is an SE site
For a while now anonymous users are automatically redirected to the linked duplicate if they visit a question that was closed as a duplicate and that had no answers. There is one case where this ...
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Weird migrated post
The post was asked 4 hours ago by @oleksandrm1608 and marked as [migrated]:
Clicking on it redirects me to to the post asked more than 3 years ago.
What’s going on here?
Timeline doesn’t add ...
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