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Tagged with vote-to-close duplicate-questions
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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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Duo of buddies can circumvent duplicate closures under the new rule requiring an answer
There are two fellows asking questions in objective-c who have indicated (10k-only link) that they're friends who are working together:
They have several pairs of questions which are the same problem....
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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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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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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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Vote to close or flag exact duplicates? Or both?
Which action(s) are appropriate for exact duplicates? Should I flag them, or vote close them, or both, or something else? I am trying to understand how to flag, which I never do. I read some other ...
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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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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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Closing an earlier post as a duplicate of a later one [duplicate]
Suppose there are two questions that are very obviously duplicates of one another. The one that came first has maybe a few votes and no answers. The second has double the votes of the first and ...
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Should we close support questions where the answer is “no” as duplicates of corresponding feature requests?
I just came across this support request in the close-votes review queue, where it was proposed as a duplicate of this feature request. The answer to the support request is “no, you can’t do that”, ...
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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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When a close-duplicate vote is retracted, the OP only banner and auto generated comment do not get removed
This is similar to this report, but refers to the header that gets added to a post body.
See here, on Super User for an example. As of the time of posting, the duplicate vote was retracted, but both ...
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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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Double entity encoding in suggested duplicate list
While reviewing a suggested close vote, one option was to resolve as duplicate of How can I parse XML using Java?. This question starts with a code block of XML source, however the summary of the ...
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This closure would result in the 'duplicate of' navigation only leading in a circle, except it wouldn't
I tried to close this question (#1) as a dup of this question (#2), but SO told me:
If you want to stop me from creating dup chains then, well I disagree with that, but I can at least accept it.
But ...
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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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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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Cannot vote to close as duplicate sometimes
I'm voting to close mark "Premium SSL" vs "Stanard SSL" certificates - Any reason why I would want a "Premium SSL"? as a duplicate. It already has 4 votes to close as a ...
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Can we prevent questions from being closed as duplicates of closed questions?
For example, a question that gets closed as a duplicate of a question that is off-topic is also off-topic. It should either be migrated to an appropriate site, if an appropriate site exists and there ...
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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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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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Close as Duplicate always lists same (unrelated) questions [closed]
For at least the past week or so, every time that I go to close a question in the iOS/iphone/related tags, it ALWAYS includes this question as the top candidate for closing: How to check for an ...
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Voting to close: dupe vs "off topic" / minimal understanding
Imagine someone asks a typical gimme the codez question with no care or research or explanation. Just "how do I [common thing] in [language]?" And you happen to know that there's a pretty good ...
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What is the difference of closing for duplicate and flagging for duplicate?
When I encounter a duplicate, I have two choices: Vote closing because it is a duplicate, or flag it as a duplicate. What is the difference and should I do both?
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The new closing window doesn't take into account if the question has an open bounty
I was inspecting the new dupe-closing window trying to find something interesting beyond the documented features in it... Haven't found anything interesting yet, but stumbled into a bug.
Let's create ...
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Duplicate does not have upvoted answers
I can't close a question as duplicate of this.
It clearly is the same user that created another account and asked the same thing again. But now I can't vote as duplicate.
There is a dup of this ...
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Unable to close as duplicate on Meta
When I try to close a question as duplicate, it fails at the point where I am to enter the URL of the duplicate. The look up of that URL fails with the message “An error occurred while searching; ...
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Voting mutually duplicates
Today I saw this question in the close vote review queue, which was flagged as exact duplicate of another question. Paradoxically, the possible duplicate was closed because it was a duplicate of the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it appropriate to reopen a question so it can be closed as a duplicate?
I saw a question on meta about a long standing site bug. It is a bit hard to discern, so some people thought it was unreproducible and closed it as such. However several others have verified that this ...
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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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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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Why do people use similar answers as justification for closing questions as duplicates? (And should something be done about it?)
I occasionally see things getting closed on the various SE sites, which I don't think should be closed. While usually the questions are similar, they aren't exact -- exact duplicate means exact ...
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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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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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Question #0 doesn't exist, close as duplicate bug
I went to close a question as a dupe, was the first one to do so, pasted the link into the duplicate dialog and hit Enter. The first picture is before, the second is after. I've duped it multiple ...
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Auto-inserted "possible duplicate" comment does not trim whitespace from question title [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto “possible duplicate” comment should use trimmed title?
When I voted to close a question as an exact duplicate, the following comment was auto-inserted:
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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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What is the process by which a question is marked as duplicate by Community♦? [duplicate]
For example https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/77966/121 was:
marked as duplicate by Jens, bbgodfrey, Community♦ 10 hours ago
Neither Jens nor bbgodfrey hold a Gold tag badge applicable to ...
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Review test catching people indiscriminately for duplicate questions [duplicate]
I occasionally get flagged for not passing a review audit test because of duplicate questions.
In nearly all cases for a duplicate answer vote the easiest way to see the candidate questions is to ...
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The little icon for new gold badge super closing powers doesn't always appear
Here's a counter-example of the expected gold circle icon:
Compare with:
I'm not certain of when the powers came into play, precisely, but since FredOverflow is neither a moderator nor the owner of ...
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Is it worth flagging a question as an exact duplicate when others have already cast close as exact dupe votes on it?
I don't have close vote rights on MSO yet, but since I do on regular SO, I am familiar with how the close votes work. I can tell when there's an auto-generated close vote comment that looks like "...
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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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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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