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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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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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Good duplicate questions archive
I know, I'm not the first to talk about this idea, but I haven't found anything useful which is less than a couple of years old...
It seems that vast majority of questions which need to be closed ...
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Marking as duplicate should be time sensitive
Some questions are marked as duplicates years after they were initially asked. It seems that if it took that long to find a duplicate, then the original question (the one being duplicated) was poorly ...
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If a question is both too broad and a duplicate, should it be closed as "too broad" or "duplicate of..."?
When a question is clearly too broad (shopping list style or opinion based) AND it has a clear duplicate (that is already closed) with a lot of good answers and information, should we close the ...
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Unable to close twice posted identical question as duplicate of the closed
I can understand that it makes no sense to close a real question as a duplicate of an not yet answered question.
But this also doesn't permit me to close an exact same question (with only a few ...
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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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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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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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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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Why are people so trigger happy with close as duplicate? [closed]
I have asked this question which I don't honestly think is a duplicate of the question linked as motivation for closing. They are both about java, but one is about the language and the other one about ...
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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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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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