Linked Questions
69 questions linked to/from New Post Notices are live network-wide
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What is a "closed" or "duplicate" question?
Questions can be closed or marked as duplicates.
What does it mean for a question to be "closed"?
What does it mean for a question to be marked as a "duplicate"?
Who can close a ...
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The auto-comment “Does this answer your question?” generated when voting to close as a duplicate is sometimes confusing
I noticed an old question similar to another existing question and voted to close as duplicate.
After this, the system added a comment:
Does this answer your question? Dotnet Windows service ...
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Perception - "Does this answer your question?" reads as sarcastic or 'snarky', not 'friendly'
I'm not saying that "Possible duplicate of..." was the most friendly way to advise of a potential duplicate, but it was at least accurate.
The first time I saw "Does this answer your question?" on ...
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Remove or make "Highly active question" post notice less visible / annoying
Here's what I've seen today when checked out the question. I suggest to remove this post notice (and just show a message after someone who had not enough reputation tried to answer) or at least to ...
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Don't mark migrations as "rejected" if they were closed long after migration
A question was asked on Site A, where it collected answers before being migrated to Site B. On Site B it collected more answers and lived happily for a time. More than two years later, it was closed....
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How do I close my own question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a “closed” question in Stack Overflow? How do they work?
Motives aside, I want to close some of my questions. Many of which have answers.
Could someone ...
sundar venugopal
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What should you do if you're serial downvoted & it isn't automatically reversed within 24 hours? [duplicate]
Example: Three days ago I was serial downvoted[?]
After these weren't automatically reversed, 24 hours later, I flagged one of the posts. It was eventually marked as helpful, but the downvotes ...
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Winter Bash hats delay
Is there a delay before getting your Winter Bash hats once you meet the requirements to get them?
I accepted by clicking I Love Hats and logged in. Meanwhile, I meet the requirements for some hats, ...
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Please allow users without the close/reopen votes privilege to see the full details of close reasons
Let me first establish what I'm not asking about:
I know that there are posts that don't show a specific close reason to anyone when three different reasons were chosen.
I know that users who don't ...
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How to access 'Private feedback for you'?
I got this on a question I asked (no big deal - I don't care if somebody closes it). Is this a feature? How would I access "private feedback"?
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Why is the auto generated duplicate comment disappearance not consistent?
I have flagged the following two questions as duplicates:
Split list based on element value in Scala [duplicate]
The POST method is not supported for this route. Supported methods: GET, HEAD. - ...
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Why was the period for closed questions to enter the reopen queue extended from 5 days to 70 days?
It appears that on December 20, 2019, the team increased the period of time for questions to enter the reopen queue from 5 days to 70 days. There was no announcement made of this change at the time (...
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New duplicate automatic comment makes literally zero sense when voting to close as a duplicate of an unanswered question
A few days ago, the automatic comment when voting to close a question as a duplicate was changed from:
Possible duplicate of [x]
to:
Does this answer your question? [x]
While some people may ...
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Can we have a permanent bye to "on-hold"?
Whenever I click on "Close" button to cast a close vote on an already loaded page of a closed question when it wasn't closed, this dialog appears:
But since the redesign of post notices, "on-hold" ...
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Questions migrated more than 60 days ago no longer link to their revision history on the origin site (possible license violation)
In January 2014, the migration banner on questions migrated from other sites was changed to link to the revision history of the question on the origin site (the migration stub), and said revision ...