Questions tagged [similarity]
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"Similar questions" prompt shows closed questions
When asking a question, a "Similar Questions" panel displays on the right hand side. This shows closed questions.
Is there a good reason for this?
Example: (sorry for the large image but I tried to ...
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Similar question = Same User?Duplicate:Different; //Is this true?
If two questions are similar but have different focal points / purposes, is the newest one a duplicate?
For example take my Japanese captcha question (hencefort QB). Deemed a duplicate of my Chinese ...
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Should I post my answer when it's very similar to another answer?
Often simple questions get a bunch of short duplicate answers right away, where the answer is essentially one line of code (like "how do I parse an integer from this string?"). In this case I would ...
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same question but not quite
Okay, so I found a question over on stackoverflow which would appear to be the same on the surface:
subversion merge - "has different repository root than"
But I know that the cause is ...
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To whom should we give credit?
Sometimes I answer a question, and later see that other people who answered before me have edited their answers to roll my answer into their own. When I borrow part of someone else's answer, I always ...