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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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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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New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes
As of the 9th of March, the banner shown to askers whose questions have attracted at least one duplicate close vote has a couple of new options:
If the author clicks the first button, they're shown a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Opinions on closing an older question as a duplicate of a newer question [duplicate]
What's everyone's opinion on closing an older question as a duplicate of a newer one, if the newer one is clearly the better resource? I'm looking at a special case right now, where the two were ...
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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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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->...
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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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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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Auto generated close as dupe comment appears only after a full reload
When casting a close vote (non binding) or raising a flag to mark a question as duplicate of other question, the auto generated comment "Does this answer your question? [duplicate target 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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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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Aggressively closing duplicate questions
It seems like people have become extremely aggressive in closing duplicate questions lately (often within a minute or two), and it seems like there's a downside to this...
Is the loss of potential ...
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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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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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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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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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Vanishing close-votes when the original version of a duplicate is deleted?
I voted to close this question as a duplicate of this earlier question (now deleted, after being closed as off-topic and voted down to -6), so did one other user. The author of both questions deleted ...
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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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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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Auto comment "possible duplicate of ..." missing on voting to close as duplicate
Please refer to the following question:
bash: Bash: bad array subscript
The user had posted an identical problem a while back. I posted a comment referring to the same and voted to close the ...
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"Close -- exact duplicate" process is buggy and annoying
The whole UI for closing a question as an exact duplicate is buggy and annoying. It's hard for me to describe the pain and angst I feel every time I vote to close for exact duplicate. Every time I do ...
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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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What is the proper behavior when someone abuses the close-vote superpowers?
I got this question in the re-open vote queue.
I noticed it is marked as a duplicate of a question titled Complete and utter nonsense, which was a bit suspicious. So I looked at the bottom of that ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Proposed better way of handling duplicates
A constant stream of duplicates arrives on Stack Overflow. Most duplicates are answered, only a few get closed as duplicate. I suspect most duplicate closes go to controversial questions. It takes ...
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You can vote to close two questions as duplicates of each other [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Prevent circular close as exact duplicate loop
As I demonstrated with these two questions:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/61559/can-a-question-be-a-duplicate-of-a-...
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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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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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