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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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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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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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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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Meta duplicates don't require an answer. Don't suggest there is one when that's not true
This request was sparked by this particular question. The vote to close as a duplicate on meta, in contrast to the main site, does not require for the duplicate to have an answer. Yet, the closure ...
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answers
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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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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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2
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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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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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5
answers
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Help us find duplicates efficiently
I have recently started using a new device and I am discovering
Just how immensely helpful the various browser caches are on my earlier device for locating duplicates
just how erm, poor the Closing->...
user147520
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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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1
answer
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Boost duplicate post search results by incoming link count
When you try to close a post as a duplicate, you are given the opportunity to search for the dupe target.
Still, searching for that dupe target you know exists is hard and more often than not I have ...
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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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3
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Should the "closed as duplicate" message be altered?
Here's what the closed-as-duplicate message looks like:
marked as duplicate by johndoe1, johndoe2, johndoe3, johndoe4, johndoe5 May 5 '55 at 5:55
This question has been asked before and already has ...
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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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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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“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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answer
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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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answers
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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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1
answer
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Create CW answer for every "Vote to close as duplicate" vote
Shog once suggested an better way of dealing with duplicate votes by making each suggested duplicate an answer that could be voted on.
Let's do it!
One of the biggest advantages of that idea is ...
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1
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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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1
answer
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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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73
votes
5
answers
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Award accepted answer reputation for finding duplicates verified by OP
Consider the following theoretical situation:
New user asks a question:
Why does my program process a sorted array faster than an unsorted array?
I see this question, I can:
Vote to close as ...
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27
votes
1
answer
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Subsequent duplicate close votes should automatically upvote the possible duplicate comment
When voting to close as a duplicate, an automatic comment is generated, that's good.
But sometimes that comment is lost in the influx of other comments, not visible to viewers or sometimes the OP (...
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answers
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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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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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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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Link to duplicate answer in 'marked as duplicate' section
Using your typical duplicate answer as a reference:
I think that the "has an answer" text of the duplicate section should either be linked to the duplicate answer.
Or, if that's untenable, clicking ...
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Please streamline VTC-as dupe in the review queue
I am trying to be a good sport and work on the close queue. Some days I use up all my votes, most days I don't. I hate to be a whiner, but there is a ton of clicking to agree with a possible dupe:
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answers
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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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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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Show us detailed close vote count for migrations / duplicates, after voting [duplicate]
When you open the close dialog after having voted yourself, you get the same dialog as normal, but without the radio buttons. You can see the vote counts on the different categories. However, you can'...
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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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Allow marking questions as duplicate even when out of close votes
Now that we have a great UI for allowing people to close their own questions as duplicates, I think we should be able to offer that UI to people even if we are out of close votes.
Proposal: if out of ...
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1
answer
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Change how questions marked as duplicates by the asker are represented [duplicate]
Situation: when a user self-marks their post as a duplicate, it shows as closed by "community" rather than the original poster.
Problems: this is not clear at all to most users of SE what has ...
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Mobile: unusable Close as Duplicate dialog
I can understand how it's useful to see exactly which question you are nominating as the original, non-duplicate one when voting to close a question as an exact duplicate, but this presupposes that ...
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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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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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answer
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Let moderators disable the dupehammer for certain tags
Recently it was announced that the new "weighted" close votes from tag badge holders will be going network-wide. I'd like to request that moderators have the ability to disable this for ...
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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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Now that duplicate means "has an answer somewhere else," OP should be able to close own question as duplicate unilaterally [duplicate]
(As of before I made the title twice as long but more specific - you should read my function names!) my question is a duplicate of
Closing my own question as a duplicate (Oct 2010)
Allow question ...
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Don't show answers when voting to close as duplicate on mobile [duplicate]
This originally started bothering me when voting to close as duplicate of a question which had deleted answers. I thought to myself, "Why on Earth am I being shown the deleted answers for this?" Why ...
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Don't let an answered question be closed as a duplicate of an unanswered one, even if they're by the same user
Since a few years ago, it hasn't been possible to close questions as a duplicate of an unanswered question. The only exception to this is when both questions are by the same user, in which case the ...
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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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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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'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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For a gold badge user, how to "propose" for closing a question as duplicate without completely closing it? [duplicate]
In earlier times (with/without gold badge), when a user would hit "close" button for a "duplicate" question, it will automatically add a comment and mark a vote for the closing it.
With new "gold ...
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0
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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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1
answer
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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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