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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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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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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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Closing for exact duplicate - does the duplicate have to have an answer too?
I just noticed, if you vote to close a question because of exact duplicate, the text states This question has been asked before and already has an answer. It's the second part of that statement that ...
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Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux)
I feel like we got off on the wrong foot. Due to me being an idiot miscommunication, a partial change snuck out early, and even though we announced it we didn't really explain why we made the change. ...
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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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Duplicate dialog breaks when the identified duplicate is deleted
The story:
Question posted on Programmers (let's call it Q1),
Same question posted on Code Review (let's call it Q2),
I migrate Q1 to Code Review,
Someone notices that Q1 is a duplicate of Q2 and ...
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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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Changes to "close as duplicate"
As you may have noticed, Jarrod's been hacking away at some design changes to the "close as duplicate" UI. These are the first fruits of some discussions we've been having internally ...
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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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Close-Vote impossible due to "question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer" [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Duplicate target erroneously rejected although it has upvoted/accepted answers
I'm getting this information since lately:
This question does not have an upvoted or accepted ...
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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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How to deal with reasking a question that was closed as duplicate
This question was asked today
Iterating through LinQ to Entities results
In it, the OP states that he asked the question the other day.
The entity or complex type ' ' cannot be constructed ...
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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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Should I vote to close a duplicate question, even though it's much newer, and has more up to date answers?
I have seen this many times, a question is being asked because a previous, duplicate question was asked and answered a few years ago and has no longer relevant answers.
The recommendation is to edit ...
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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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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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Flag exact duplicate questions without sufficient privileges? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where on earth is the mark as duplicate UI on Stack Overflow?
I just came accross this question. From my point of view, the OP self provided the link to the exact duplicate. ...
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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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Why do close votes expire?
I nominated this question to be closed as a dup.
I see that two other people upvoted my comment, so they might have voted to close it as well.
Now, we didn't gather enough votes, and all close votes ...
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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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Closing a question as duplicate of a question on sister-site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do with cross-site duplicates?
This question on stats.stackexchange has several duplicates on stackoverflow (see the comment for one). In truth, the content does match ...
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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 ...
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The link in the comment from marking as duplicate breaks on trailing whitespace [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto “possible duplicate” comment should use trimmed title?
When marking At what time will the upcoming Ubuntu release be made available? as duplicate of On what ...
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The title of the inserted link for a duplicate question should be properly escaped
This question was recently closed as a duplicate of (![]+[])[+[]]… Explain why this works. However, the inserted link blows up as the weird title does not get escaped properly in the resulting ...
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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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Duplicate Close dialog misleading when given an off-site URL
I found a user had posted the same question question on both SU and SO. I voted to close as a duplicate on SO, and pasted in the SU link. It brought up the SO question with the same question number ...
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How best to respond to "I want a better answer" duplicates?
I think this is a common scenario on every Stack Exchange:
User 1 asks question A
Question A gets answers X, Y, and Z
User 2 asks identical question B, but adds arbitrary condition excluding answers ...
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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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Close as exact duplicate doesn't work on mobile Safari
I cannot start closing question as duplicate from mobile Safari (tested on both iPhone and iPad). When I choose close as exact duplicate and paste url of the question the dialog freezes. The text is ...
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Is automatic merging a good alternative to closing duplicate questions?
I don't think closing as duplicate is functioning in the way it is supposed to. I don't think closing is the right way. There are certain kinds of questions that are repeatedly asked, and even if they ...
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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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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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Is it my responsibility to search for duplicates & vote to close before answering?
I obtained the "vote to close" privilege this week, and today after providing a very quick and correct answer I received a downvote (among several upvotes) for answering what others determined to be a ...
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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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Proposal: Gain reputation for identifying duplicates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions
One of the problems with Stack Overflow is the large number of duplicate questions. Just yesterday, I answered a question ...
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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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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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Using questions with no accepted answers as examples of duplicates for vote to close
Is it really a good idea to use unanswered questions as duplicate question examples when voting to close?
Is it not better to leave the duplicate question open so there is a least a better chance of ...
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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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