Linked Questions
44 questions linked to/from New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes
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Send authors an inbox message if their question is closed
I think it would really help if you get notified that a question of yours was closed.
Especially for the multi-site power user, usually (at least for me) a question is asked and then left alone for ...
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Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project! [closed]
In case you missed the first one, check out the se-quality-project tag. The quality project isn't one that we plan to ever finish, it's perennial and kicks in every 18 months or so after we've had ...
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Can we clarify to the OP that their question is not yet closed and the duplicates are only suggestions?
I keep seeing custom flags in the queue from question askers who are incredibly irritated because there is a big, prominent box at the top of their question. It's just a list of other questions which ...
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow [closed]
Today, the size of the close-votes queue is 55k questions and growing. Is that a problem?
Which action could be taken to clean it up? It seems to be growing faster than Stack Overflow members ...
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Someone flagged my question as already answered, but it's not
I asked a question regarding a very specific feature of a program and whether or not it works with a larger program. Within hours someone had marked it with "This question may already have an answer ...
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Age close votes after 14 days, regardless of views, allowing recasting
I've been putting this off for a long time...
Close vote aging - the deactivation of votes that haven't resulted in a question being closed - is a critical part of the vote-to-close system, but has ...
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Can we have a guaranteed pipeline for responses from Stack Exchange?
I think we should have some mechanism that automatically flags certain meta posts (both child metas and here) for Stack Exchange staff attention when they get beyond a certain point. The thresholds ...
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How is question quality measured in A/B tests?
As sites grow, there's a noticeable increase in community unhappiness with question quality. Quite a bit of the problem is simply a matter of scale, but sites sometimes optimize for extremes. Bad ...
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Grant the OP a binding close as duplicate vote [duplicate]
Since the changes to the close as duplicate mechanism it is a lot more visible to the OP that there is/might be a duplicate to their question. Empirically, I've noticed a lot more people agreeing, in ...
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Show duplicate suggestions as answers
Turning @Shog9's original idea into a feature request:
The way duplicates are handled should be revamped.
When a 3k+ user votes to close a question as a duplicate, instead of a "possible duplicate" ...
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Confirming that my own question is a duplicate by voting to close should have immediate effect
Someone voted to close my question as a duplicate. I agreed, so I cast my close vote (I have enough reputation to vote to close).
A question is closed immediately when the asker agrees that it's a ...
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Allow new users to flag comments on their own posts
Something that has always bothered us about the new user experience was the amount of guidance we've got out there telling folks to flag rude or abusive comments, but not allowing new users to do it, ...
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Revamping the Duplicate question System
Now that we have over 3 million questions on Stack Overflow, the "Duplicate Question" problem is becoming way more difficult to handle and address. We are seeing over 130 possibly duplicate questions ...
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Allow question askers to close their own questions unilaterally
I have found a number of reasons to close a question of my own:
I've found out it's a dupe
it belongs on an SE site that didn't exist when the question was asked
it is wrong; that is, based on ...
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Show the reason given for a close vote before the question gets closed
If a question gets votes to close but no answer or comment stating the reason for the vote, the OP has no way of knowing if editing would solve the problem.
Show to the asker the reasons (but not who ...