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Why was the network-wide close-as-duplicate comment change not announced here?
Since yesterday the automatic comment posted when closing or flagging a post as a duplicate was changed from
Does this answer your question? [question title]
to
This question is similar to: [...
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Improve the user experience for duplicate closures
Duplicates are one of the most important features of the entire Q&A system. They are the consequence of the decision to create a repository of knowledge and to try and increase the signal-to-noise ...
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API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with duplicate list
If you follow and/or curate a tag long enough, you'll probably notice that there's some questions that just get asked over and over. Usually these are confusing aspects of some commonly used feature ...
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Delete the "Close" feature (Especially for duplicates)
Today when I was asking a question on Stack Overflow, after I posted the question, I went to the restroom. After I came back, guess what? My post was closed, because it was a duplicate.
At first, I ...
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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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Blue close vote count wraps to two lines [duplicate]
I've got this issue on ruSO, but it probably happens on all SE sites. When closing a question as a duplicate, the number of votes already given for the same question wraps to two lines. As far as I ...
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Does linking a similar question when asking a question make it less likely to get marked as a duplicate?
Let's say I want to ask a question, and I see a similar question and some answers to it but I don't feel that any of the answer tells me what I want to know. Would linking the similar question, in my ...
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Please allow close voting when viewing a suggested duplicate in the Close votes Review Queue
I would love to see an improved workflow for when I review a duplicate question.
My current workflow looks like this:
Read the question that is nominated for closure
Read the suggested duplicate ...
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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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A user answering duplicate questions and dupe-hammering them afterwards [duplicate]
For a long time now a six-figure user has been consistently answering questions from a certain tag and dupe-hammering quite a few of them right afterwards. I didn't think much of it until recently:
I ...
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Odd duplicates link for questions that were closed as duplicates a long time ago [duplicate]
I occasionally notice this odd duplicate notice, but only for questions that were closed a long time ago. Apparently there was an update that changed the interface, changed how closing questions as ...
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Close button in review queue not working when viewing duplicate [duplicate]
In the Close Votes review queue a post can be voted as duplicate. The duplicate which was flagged is available in the queue interface to allow to compare the two posts easily.
When I'm in that queue I ...
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Why should I flag a question as a duplicate, instead of answering it? [duplicate]
Background:
I have recently begun answering more questions on Stack Overflow. I have already learned new things about programming languages I use on a daily basis and have had an overall excellent ...
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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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Can my duplicate close vote be binding when I cast it on my own question [duplicate]
Today I closed a question I asked on MSO, because it was a duplicate.
I voted to close, and was then served with this nice pop-up:
That asks if it answers my question.
Ofcourse it does, it was me ...
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What is the recommended way to handle questions that are duplicates of questions in a different SE site? [duplicate]
If you have an SO question A that is a duplicate of question B on SO, it should be closed as such. However, what if question B lives not on SO but on, say, vi.SE?
As far as I know there is no option ...
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Why are "approving a pending duplicate vote" and "casting a close-as-duplicate vote" different actions when done by the asker?
When a question is flagged/close-voted as duplicate by other users, the question asker has the possibility to unilaterally approve this vote and have the question closed. If this happens, the last ...
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Are there special guidelines for moderating exceptionally old questions?
This question pertains to a very old and fairly insignificant question of my own from nearly a decade ago.
Is Stack Overflow an appropriate place for DotNetNuke questions?
The question was recently ...
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Description of the "Flag as duplicate" doesn't match official staff reply
I know I'm not the only person noticing inconsistencies in the description since it started
Should we change the description of "Duplicate of"?
Duplicate explanation should encourage ...
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New (December 2019) 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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Question can't be duplicate of unclear question [duplicate]
If a question A is closed as unclear, it means that it is unknown what the asker meant. (Otherwise the question would have been edited rather than closed.)
If some question B is unclear (also if it's ...
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Cannot vote to close a question as a duplicate because it would lead to a circle, except it wouldn't
I'm trying to vote to close this question as a duplicate of this one. The former question had just been asked 20 minutes ago, whereas the latter one was closed as a duplicate back in 2010 and hasn't ...
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What exactly "duplicate comments" will be upvoted if I cast a subsequent dupe vote?
This is not a duplicate of Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate as that simply indicates that the feature exists. This is a "how" question asking how this feature actually works, which that ...
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How do posts get closed as duplicates vs exact duplicates? [duplicate]
I've come across some posts that said they were closed as exact duplicates, and some that were closed as duplicates.
The first image is a duplicate question and the second one is an exact duplicate.
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How can I change which question the current question is a duplicate of? [duplicate]
I would imagine this is a fairly common situation, but I haven't found it discussed:
I vote to close a question as a duplicate of a specific other
question.
The asker edits the question so that it's ...
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When are questions which build upon each other considered duplicates?
Each Stack Exchange site caters to a mix of experts and novices. This means that some (expert) questions presuppose knowledge which is being asked about in other (novice) questions. In other words, we ...
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Comment 'Duplicate of' shown on wrong question on Area51 proposal
Today, I got the scare of a lifetime: A notification for a comment underneath my proposed question on the Sociology and Anthropology proposal that said my question was a duplicate of another question.
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Can I approve the duplicate votes on my own question if I've edited it?
When someone suggests that your post is a duplicate, you can see a button to approve that suggestion and instantly close your question. But if you make an edit after they suggest it, the button ...
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Duplicate dialog in iOS app doesn't detect URLs from other sites
I just erroneously closed this Meta Stack Overflow question (timeline) as a duplicate of a totally unrelated question. How did that happen?
Well, I was using the Stack Exchange iOS app. I followed ...
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Allow voting to close as self-duplicate... user created a new account
We often see that new users ask the same question over and over again, the first question is too broad, lacks any code, etc. Instead of editing that post, the new user creates a new question. ...
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Let gold tag badge duplicates prevail above those of other close voters
I just closed a question as duplicate of another with my gold tag badge dupe-hammer (timeline).
I used another duplicate target as the one another user suggested which had just one vote until the ...
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Conflicting description for gold tag badge holder's marking as duplicates
There are conflicting descriptions for marking as duplicates, if you are a gold tag badge holder.
Excerpt from the help center
...except for duplicate questions, which can be marked as duplicate ...
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How to close duplicated questions ... when the "duplicate" doesn't have an answer? [duplicate]
This question explicitly says:
This question was asked a few years ago by @moggizx, here: some-existing-question
I've been unable to find a similar question, or an answer for this so I thought I'd ...
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When the OP votes to close own question as a duplicate, immediately close the question [duplicate]
When a user votes to close their own question as a duplicate, it is treated like any regular vote to close, auto-adding a comment to the page suggesting the possible duplicate.
Upon refreshing the ...
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Can we add a simple search to the "vote to close as duplicate" feature on the iOS app, like on desktop? [duplicate]
On my phone right now, so very briefly...
VTC (e.g. as dupe) on mobile iOS app has no simple search like the regular desktop site.
That would be a nice addition.
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Should dupehammer wielders use their powers to wipe obviously incorrect close-as-duplicate votes?
Occasionally, a user will cast a close-as-duplicate vote that's clearly incorrect. If that vote closes the question as duplicate, a gold tag badge user in a tag for the question ("dupehammer user") ...
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Adding a duplicate to a reopened post gives an "invalid request" error
I just tried to add a duplicate to the existing one. In the meantime, that post got reopened. Since I was still in the dialog, I didn't see that.
When trying to click the Add button, this "invalid ...
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Closing as duplicate when the existing question is different, but has an answer to the newer question [duplicate]
Given two questions:
A) An existing question with some answers
B) A (new) different question
Given also that the auto-generated dupe text reads:
This question already has an answer here:
Some other ...
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What if a new question, that is a duplicate of an older one, gets an answer but not older one? [duplicate]
This may look similar to this. But it isn't as in that question; the problem was that both were similar questions and one (the new one) was better than the other (older one). So which one should ...
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Dealing with a very high rate of duplicates
Over the last few weeks at Bitcoin.SE, we have been having a flood of duplicate questions from brand-new users. Not to go into details, but there is currently a global issue with Bitcoin that affects ...
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No "That solve my problem" button for not yet closed question
My question not yet closed as dup, but I can't see That solve my problem button in the header:
Where is the button?
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Feature request: move "vote to close" for duplicates to TOP of page [duplicate]
[ I saw this question; but I think that is a different thing; or to be precise: that question says "fixed"; but not in the way that the question suggested ]
There are few things that also work nicely ...
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Can I close, re-open, and close again with the dupehammer on two different tags?
Related: Can't single-handedly reopen a dupehammered Q after editing gold tag to another gold tag
Say there's a question with two tags on which I have the gold badge. I dupehammered it once (with ...
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Add a “Canonical” badge awarding questions/answers that are common dupe targets
I’d like to propose a badge that rewards those that write questions that are common dupe targets. This could apply when all of these are true:
you wrote the post
it’s a question OR it’s the (...
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Show unanswered questions in the duplicate dialog on meta sites and in other cases where choosing an unanswered target is allowed
Most of the time, you don't want to see unanswered questions in the duplicate dialog, since you can't normally close as a duplicate of them. This behavior is intended, at least as it says here:
The ...
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Is it better to use a dupe target that has an answer?
This is an issue only for meta, as a question without an answer can be used as a dupe target on meta, not on the main sites. Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux) (thanks to Laurel for ...
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Why doesn't the "marked as duplicate" notice include the user who voted to close?
In this question, I got a notice that my question was a duplicate, and I clicked a button to confirm that it was.
But it says that only the Community user marked the question. Wouldn't it also ...
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Why do we have duplicated "mark as duplicate" when voting / flagging questions? [duplicate]
I was wondering when marking / flagging a question as a duplicate, I see two identical options: "A duplicated "mark as duplicate" "
One in the first page:
Another under "Should be closed" page:
I ...
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What is the difference between "marked as duplicate" and "closed as duplicate"?
Sometimes questions are just "marked" and sometimes they are "closed" as duplicates.
Up until recently I thought it was "marked" when the question it's a duplicate of doesn't have an answer. But then ...
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Add clarification link to "Possible duplicate" automated comment
Some people when receiving "Possible duplicate" comment (if someone voted to close the question as a duplicate), take it personally and put angry comments, that historically their question was asked ...
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