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Improve the user experience for duplicate closures
Duplicates are one of the most important features of the entire Q&A system. They are the consequence of the decision to create a repository of knowledge and to try and increase the signal-to-noise ...
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API to programmatically close questions as duplicate with duplicate list
If you follow and/or curate a tag long enough, you'll probably notice that there's some questions that just get asked over and over. Usually these are confusing aspects of some commonly used feature ...
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Delete the "Close" feature (Especially for duplicates)
Today when I was asking a question on Stack Overflow, after I posted the question, I went to the restroom. After I came back, guess what? My post was closed, because it was a duplicate.
At first, I ...
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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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Can my duplicate close vote be binding when I cast it on my own question [duplicate]
Today I closed a question I asked on MSO, because it was a duplicate.
I voted to close, and was then served with this nice pop-up:
That asks if it answers my question.
Ofcourse it does, it was me ...
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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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How can I change which question the current question is a duplicate of? [duplicate]
I would imagine this is a fairly common situation, but I haven't found it discussed:
I vote to close a question as a duplicate of a specific other
question.
The asker edits the question so that it's ...
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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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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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When the OP votes to close own question as a duplicate, immediately close the question [duplicate]
When a user votes to close their own question as a duplicate, it is treated like any regular vote to close, auto-adding a comment to the page suggesting the possible duplicate.
Upon refreshing the ...
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Can we add a simple search to the "vote to close as duplicate" feature on the iOS app, like on desktop? [duplicate]
On my phone right now, so very briefly...
VTC (e.g. as dupe) on mobile iOS app has no simple search like the regular desktop site.
That would be a nice addition.
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Feature request: move "vote to close" for duplicates to TOP of page [duplicate]
[ I saw this question; but I think that is a different thing; or to be precise: that question says "fixed"; but not in the way that the question suggested ]
There are few things that also work nicely ...
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Add a “Canonical” badge awarding questions/answers that are common dupe targets
I’d like to propose a badge that rewards those that write questions that are common dupe targets. This could apply when all of these are true:
you wrote the post
it’s a question OR it’s the (...
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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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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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For a gold badge user, how to "propose" for closing a question as duplicate without completely closing it? [duplicate]
In earlier times (with/without gold badge), when a user would hit "close" button for a "duplicate" question, it will automatically add a comment and mark a vote for the closing it.
With new "gold ...
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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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Allowing straightforward duplicates to be linked from main meta to specific meta
This question is not about cross duplicates among all meta sites, which is discussed here:
What to do with cross site duplicates?
There are certain duplicates which are too straightforward to be re-...
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Don't let an answered question be closed as a duplicate of an unanswered one, even if they're by the same user
Since a few years ago, it hasn't been possible to close questions as a duplicate of an unanswered question. The only exception to this is when both questions are by the same user, in which case the ...
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Let me change my close vote, after the question was significantly edited? [duplicate]
I'm aware of the "How do I change a close vote to a duplicate?" question from a few years back, but mine's slightly different
A user asked a question, which wasn't clear. I left a comment explaining ...
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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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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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Change how questions marked as duplicates by the asker are represented [duplicate]
Situation: when a user self-marks their post as a duplicate, it shows as closed by "community" rather than the original poster.
Problems: this is not clear at all to most users of SE what has ...
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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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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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Duplicate Close message sends wrong message to users [duplicate]
Similar to this request.
I was helping a user (through comments) with a question, and I believe a question was closed as a dupe for a wrong reason. Then, I read the message:
So, we already ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Review queue should give me duplicates with low vote count
Given the new Mjolnir, I have a feature request.
I'd prefer it if when the review queue wants to give me a duplicate on a tag in which I can single handedly vote and close, that it's give me one that ...
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Let moderators disable the dupehammer for certain tags
Recently it was announced that the new "weighted" close votes from tag badge holders will be going network-wide. I'd like to request that moderators have the ability to disable this for ...
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"This question may already have an answer here" never disappears
If a question is closed as a duplication, I know how to petition it to be reopened.
However, there is no way to remove "This question may already have an answer here" from my view.
Git revert ...
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Review test catching people indiscriminately for duplicate questions [duplicate]
I occasionally get flagged for not passing a review audit test because of duplicate questions.
In nearly all cases for a duplicate answer vote the easiest way to see the candidate questions is to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Don't show answers when voting to close as duplicate on mobile [duplicate]
This originally started bothering me when voting to close as duplicate of a question which had deleted answers. I thought to myself, "Why on Earth am I being shown the deleted answers for this?" Why ...
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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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Should a Close - Duplicate supercede other Close votes?
I'm happy with the progress being made on StackExchange with how Close is handled. I'd like to propose another small tweak, with this question as concrete example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Option to close as duplicate of linked question
Disclaimer: This question assumes sufficient familiarity with the Close dialog.
In the Close -> Duplicate dialog, when no vote has yet been cast, there is a list of similar questions, otherwise there ...
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Can we prevent questions from being closed as duplicates of closed questions?
For example, a question that gets closed as a duplicate of a question that is off-topic is also off-topic. It should either be migrated to an appropriate site, if an appropriate site exists and there ...
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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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Open question links from duplicate dialog inside duplicate dialog
Note: I'm using this question as an example, it's possible that the problem doesn't exist in that specific question.
Say someone asks a question. How do I find the value of this <input> with ...
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Now that duplicate means "has an answer somewhere else," OP should be able to close own question as duplicate unilaterally [duplicate]
(As of before I made the title twice as long but more specific - you should read my function names!) my question is a duplicate of
Closing my own question as a duplicate (Oct 2010)
Allow question ...
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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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Show us detailed close vote count for migrations / duplicates, after voting [duplicate]
When you open the close dialog after having voted yourself, you get the same dialog as normal, but without the radio buttons. You can see the vote counts on the different categories. However, you can'...
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