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Show duplicate header in the VTC preview
Currently, when I try to close a post as a dupe of another post which is a dupe, I get:
Obviously, I'd like to find the original dupe link. For that, I need to open in a new tab, and then get it:
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Why should a question that's labeled as duplicate lead to a 10K-only page?
I understand the general rationale for wanting to close questions as duplicate with at least one answer. I also understand the general rationale for wanting to close a question as a duplicate that ...
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Add "Search My Activity" to the "Close as Duplicate" dialog
When I'm the first person voting to close a question as a duplicate, I know it is because I have interacted with the question before myself.
Is it possible for the default search to be in the active ...
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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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Why can't I vote to close duplicates when the target doesn't have an (upvoted) answer? [duplicate]
I've just been trying to do some "housekeeping" on TeX-SX. A user asked a question why does rotation style work on actual coordinates and not variables in tikz 3d plot?, but then they spotted a ...
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Strongly separate duplicates from "the rest" in close votes review queue
##Update: I wish I could downvote decline justification twice.
"You can already filter down by close reason." Oh really ,
Do you see many reviewers using filter?
Do you see Steward badges ...
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Remove mark as duplicate
I know that it has already been requested that a user is enabled to remove his close vote and it has been rejected here.
Still a have a case that is a bit more special. I had two tabs of ...
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Stop generating "possible duplicate" comments
When a question has pending close votes, the system now adds a banner indicating that the question might be a duplicate:
But the first user to vote still generates a possible duplicate comment:
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Suggest linked questions in vote-to-close dialogue
Sometimes people will mention possible duplicate questions in a comment, and these get put into the Linked sidebar. But when I vote to close the question, this question doesn't appear in the ...
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Remove votes to close question X as a duplicate of Y if question Y is closed as a duplicate of X [duplicate]
I just happened across this question (let's call it question A), which has one close vote suggesting that it be closed as an exact duplicate of this question (which I'll call B).
This suggestion is ...
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Make duplicate close votes more obvious
Sometimes I read a question and I think "this is a great question!" Then I see there's a close vote or two, but I ignore it because I think the question is a good one.... However, the reason people ...
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"possible duplicate" points at confirmed duplicate of this question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Circular duplicates in the close review?
In the "review close votes" list, this question:
Examples of code that compiles but executes differently in C versus C++
is marked ...
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Improve UI flow for "close as duplicate"
At the moment, to agree with a "possible duplicate" suggestion, one has to
See the "possible duplicate" comment in the first place - sometimes difficult if there's a lot of other ...
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When voting to close as duplicate, please give a visual indicator of the automatically added comment
I like to have input into the comments on SO in my name, but occasionally forget that voting to close something as a dupe (and other actions?) is going to automatically post a comment, ostensibly by ...
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Change wording of "Exact Duplicate"? [duplicate]
I like the UI and the cleanliness of the Stack Exchange sites, but one thing that bugs me is the wording of the notification that something is a duplicate. I have had many questions closed because ...
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Closing because of duplicates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Inefficient placement of the “Vote to Close” button for duplicates
Could we have an extra Close button at the top, so when i paste the URL in i don't have to wait ...
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Preview tag activity on target site during migration
Sometimes it is hard to determine which site a particular OT question should go.
One of the ways I make a decision is to open up each candidate site and look at the popularity of a post's tags on ...
user1228
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'Closed as exact duplicate' banner should link more clearly to the exact duplicate
The current interface, or perhaps the wording, can leave users wondering which question is the exact duplicate. So the current closure due to duplicate banner could be improved with a link to the ...
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Give more weight to close-as-duplicate-votes from gold/silver tag badge carriers? [duplicate]
Especially for some of the less frequented tags, such as matlab, it can take a long time till a question is closed as duplicate. (For example, How to load a series of files into MATLAB matrix via loop ...
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Don't automatically edit the post to insert "possible duplicate" links
When a question is closed as a duplicate, its body is edited to auto-insert the link to that duplicate. I think there are a couple problems with that:
If the question is reopened, the auto-generated ...
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Allow Cross Site duplicate closing for cross posted questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Close as cross post
Sometimes people will cross post on more than one Stack Exchange site.
How about enabling us to Close as Duplicate those extra posts.
Right now the only ...
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“possible duplicate” comment should be re-added if it's been deleted
Background: when I saw this question, it had 2 votes to close as duplicate, but it didn't have the usual automatically-generated comment. What happened was that the first closer changed his mind and ...
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Can we improve the UI for suggesting multiple duplicates? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Allow same user to add multiple links as possible duplicates
Allow suggesting more than one duplicate
When I vote to close a question as a duplicate, I often find more than ...
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Please allow stackexchange site urls in the Close As Duplicate box
Right now, in order to close as duplicate, one must enter the area51 proposal url in the close as duplicate entry box.
As Stack Exchange sites proliferate, it is often easier to find the site itself ...
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Vote to close (dup) notification [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Display notification when the question you are answering is voted as dupe
When answering a question, we get notified (via the handy banner on top) when someone else has ...
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Finding a system to handle duplicates
I thought about the current ways to handle duplicates and how the system could be improved.
First thing, duplicates today are hard to close, not enough people vote, you get a lot more reputation/...
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Askers should be able to close their own question as a duplicate [duplicate]
Okay, take this question: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5048/which-programming-language-feature-would-you-eliminate-and-why
I found out that there was essentially a ...
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Keep possible duplicates as presets after all close votes expire
When someone selects duplicate as the reason to close a question, the questions selected by other users are shown as presets. However, they aren't shown if the vote has expired. I think it would be ...
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Show number of exact duplicate votes for each URL
For the rare cases where a question is in the process of getting closed as a duplicate of more than one other question, can the close summary dialog show the current votes? It does so in parentheses ...
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Upvoting the automatically created duplicate comment could count as half a close vote
So low-rep users could help closing duplicates without flagging. No other close action of course, that would render the rep-requirement useless.
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Prevent circular close as exact duplicate loop [duplicate]
I was browsing SO today when I stumbled across these two questions:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3057475/php-pi-help-loops-closed
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3059533/php-pi-help-loops
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The new duplicate selection UI
I love that I can check the answer I want to close that someone else found. But can you move the preview below the radiobuttons and shrink it a little bit?
The reason for moving the preview below the ...
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Improve “Close as exact duplicate”
The UI to close a question as an exact duplicate is quite hard to use.
Due to the sheer number of duplicates, closing questions is a common activity. The UI should not impede this unnecessarily (while ...
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Make it easier to agree with existing votes to close duplicates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Choose the same question as others suggested when closing question as dup
When arriving on a question thread that has a vote to close and a comment pointing to the duplicate, ...
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Automatic "possible duplicate" links are removed even if the question isn't closed as a duplicate
I see that the system automatically adds "possible duplicate of..." links when voting to close as a duplicate.
Earlier today, I voted to close Why is SVN better than VSS? as a duplicate of SVN? VSS? ...
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Capitalize "possible" in the automatically inserted comments when you vote to close as a dupe
The comment reads:
possible duplicate of [link]
The missing capitalization bothers me a lot; it should be Possible.
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Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate
Another solution to this problem:
Problem:
People are voting to close as exact duplicate without leaving comments. Such votes are invisible to everyone under 3k. A comment is the primary way others ...
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Cannot see duplicate votes when out of close votes
When you have close votes remaining, you can always see duplicates used as close votes by pretending you're going to close vote (select the 'exact duplicate' reason) and proceed. But, after the ...
Gnome
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Add an alert when answering a question that has at least a close vote as duplicate
I have one feature-request with the objective of having duplicate questions with no answers:
To (try to) avoid people answering duplicate questions, add an alert that says the question has a probable ...
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Easier to close questions as a duplicate?
I find that closing a question as a duplicate is very cumbersome.
For instance, if I already found a duplicate, I have the URL. I don't have the question ID or title directly. So instead of doing ...
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Dupes of Dupes
I just came across a question that was closed a dupe, so I went to the original. It too was closed as a dupe of another question, so I went to that one. Fortunately, after a couple dupes, I finally ...
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Can I please select a current duplicate when closing a question?
I've read somewhere that it's to prevent lazy users selecting that one and not checking if it is actually a dupe.
I don't buy that one bit.
Isn't the system supposed to trust us?
Why hinder the ...
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Display notification when the question you are answering is voted as dupe [duplicate]
It'll be nice if a notification is displayed when you're writing an answer to a question and someone else votes it as a dupe. Today, I answered a question and when I submitted, I noticed that it's ...
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Ease selection of the master question in the duplicate question closing window
The current manner of selecting the candidate among the list is to retype the title or go see the candidate's id and type it.
Why not just click to select it? I don't suggest removing the link, which ...
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Choose the same question as others suggested when closing question as dup
When closing a question as duplicate, currently you can view what other people suggested as a duplicate. But when you cast your own vote, you still have to manually enter in the question ID or search ...
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Allow same user to add multiple links as possible duplicates
When searching for duplicates of a question often multiple ones turn up, but when voting to close only one of them can be specified.
It would be useful to be able to add more than one duplicate link ...
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Show possible duplicates in the main post before it's closed
At the moment links to possible duplicates are inserted in the question text once a question is closed. It would be better to insert the links right away as soon as someone votes for it as a duplicate....
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