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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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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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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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Voting to close as duplicate no longer up-votes the auto-generated comment
Until fairly recently, if I voted to close a question as a duplicate, the system would automatically up-vote the existing "possible duplicate of Foo" comment (if there was one).
This no longer seems ...
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What do askers do after the first vote to close as duplicate?
When a question gets a single vote-to-close identifying a possible duplicate, a large banner appears only to the asker of the question saying that the question has already been asked and may have an ...
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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 As of the time of posting, the duplicate vote was retracted, but both ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Show previous duplicate votes in app
Currently the Android app does not provide a way to vote to close as duplicate of a question someone already voted to close for.
For example, if user A votes to close question A as a dup of question ...
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Older question (with answers) being closed as duplicate of newer question (without answers)
I have just had "Should the [table] tag be removed"? closed as a duplicate of "Can we start cleaning up [table] tag and burninate it ASAP"
The questions that was closed is 2 years old, the question ...
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What to do about non-duplicate question about to be closed as duplicate?
I'm a little concerned about a question I recently asked.
Someone came along and voted to close as duplicate but it seems that was done without reading the two questions (you can see the other ...
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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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Closing Duplicate Questions on StackOverflow?
Twice today (11/17/14), I saw duplicate questions asked within 6 to 12 hours of each other (by separate users who copied and pasted almost identical text). I went to flag them as duplicate, but you ...
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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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Recommend Deletion in Low Quality Posts (answers) review queue: Give a form comment for "Don't post a link to a duplicate question"
This answer, for example, shouldn't exist. Instead. it should be flagged, or, with sufficient rep, voted to be closed. Can we get a reason like this:
Instead of posting a link to another question ...
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Are “close as duplicate” votes being timed out too quickly?
This question (now closed) is clearly a duplicate, the asker confirms it is a duplicate in a comment and at 5 people has mark the duplicate comment as helpful. The top voted answer is also a link ...
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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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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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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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Let gold tag badge duplicates prevail above those of other close voters
I just closed a question as duplicate of another with my gold tag badge dupe-hammer (timeline).
I used another duplicate target as the one another user suggested which had just one vote until the ...
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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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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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When are questions which build upon each other considered duplicates?
Each Stack Exchange site caters to a mix of experts and novices. This means that some (expert) questions presuppose knowledge which is being asked about in other (novice) questions. In other words, we ...
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Implement pass-through results for "Closing -> Duplicate" search window?
By "pass-through" I mean:
If the search terms or pasted URL in the "Closing -> Duplicate" search window would (through ordinary search) display a question with zero answers, AND
If that question has ...
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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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Duplicate dialog in iOS app doesn't detect URLs from other sites
I just erroneously closed this Meta Stack Overflow question (timeline) as a duplicate of a totally unrelated question. How did that happen?
Well, I was using the Stack Exchange iOS app. I followed ...
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Close Vote Queue: Duplicate question issue
While reviewing a question in the close vote queue on Board Games I noticed an issue where a suggested duplicate was already closed as a duplicate of question I was reviewing.
What should happen if ...
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Search results when closing as duplicate have duplicates, not sorted well
When I want to close something as a duplicate, I almost always try to use the search in the "close" dialog box, but end up getting frustrated and resort to using site search in a new tab.
Here is a ...
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Adding a duplicate to a reopened post gives an "invalid request" error
I just tried to add a duplicate to the existing one. In the meantime, that post got reopened. Since I was still in the dialog, I didn't see that.
When trying to click the Add button, this "invalid ...
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Add clarification link to "Possible duplicate" automated comment
Some people when receiving "Possible duplicate" comment (if someone voted to close the question as a duplicate), take it personally and put angry comments, that historically their question was asked ...
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Contents of question X is dupe of old question Y, but X (only) has tag feature-request - close as duplicate?
See this close vote review on SO. The misunderstanding in/from the warning described in the question has already been explained in an older question.
But the new question has an feature-request tag, ...
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Additional comments for 'possible duplicate' disappearing
Sometimes I find more than one good candidate to close a question as a duplicate of.
In this case I vote to close once, and post the other candidates as separate comments, exactly in the form of the ...
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Can two questions cover identical ground without being duplicates?
In my opinion, memcpy() vs memmove() and What is the difference between memmove and memcpy? both cover the exact the same question. Normally I'd flag one of these as duplicate of the other.
However, ...
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Use most-selected duplicate as the first duplicate shown in the banner
When a question is closed as a duplicate, it appears that the choices for the duplicate question links are presented in one of three orders1:
Most answers
First duplicate chosen
Undefined
Any of ...
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