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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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Comment lock does not prevent automatic duplicate comments
Question comment locked
Autodupe comment later
Is this intended?
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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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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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Automatic “possible duplicate” comment is not made, if presumed duplicate is linked in a deleted comment [duplicate]
The following just happened to me here:
I posted a comment on a question:
Related: [Link to other question]
I made up my mind and decided that the related question was not only related but a ...
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If the link has been posted (say as a related link), the possible duplicate comment doesn't appear [duplicate]
These comments essentially explain it: (can be found here)
Roombatron5000 added a related link. Then Shadow Wizard voted to close as a duplicate, but because the link has been given, 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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"Possible duplicate" comment is not appearing when I vote to close [duplicate]
Starting a few days ago, when I vote to close a question as a duplicate, I don't see the auto comment when I'm returned to the question. I have to refresh the page to see it.
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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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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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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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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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“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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Upvoting the automatically created duplicate comment could count as half a close vote
So low-rep users could help closing duplicates without flagging. No other close action of course, that would render the rep-requirement useless.
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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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Auto-posting who is voting to close is inviting trouble
Referring to the new feature here:
Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate
I'm really not happy about this. For starters, it came as a surprise (the original idea was posted in the middle of ...
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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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