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A duplicated question with bad writing and bad tagging but better answers [duplicate]
The first question was asked, with all possible tags, but received no long answers.
A few months later, the second question was asked without address the first one. The second was poorly worded with ...
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Does linking a similar question when asking a question make it less likely to get marked as a duplicate?
Let's say I want to ask a question, and I see a similar question and some answers to it but I don't feel that any of the answer tells me what I want to know. Would linking the similar question, in my ...
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Description of the "Flag as duplicate" doesn't match official staff reply
I know I'm not the only person noticing inconsistencies in the description since it started
Should we change the description of "Duplicate of"?
Duplicate explanation should encourage ...
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Question can't be duplicate of unclear question [duplicate]
If a question A is closed as unclear, it means that it is unknown what the asker meant. (Otherwise the question would have been edited rather than closed.)
If some question B is unclear (also if it's ...
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What exactly "duplicate comments" will be upvoted if I cast a subsequent dupe vote?
This is not a duplicate of Autocomment when voting to close as duplicate as that simply indicates that the feature exists. This is a "how" question asking how this feature actually works, which that ...
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How do posts get closed as duplicates vs exact duplicates? [duplicate]
I've come across some posts that said they were closed as exact duplicates, and some that were closed as duplicates.
The first image is a duplicate question and the second one is an exact duplicate.
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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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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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Can I approve the duplicate votes on my own question if I've edited it?
When someone suggests that your post is a duplicate, you can see a button to approve that suggestion and instantly close your question. But if you make an edit after they suggest it, the button ...
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Conflicting description for gold tag badge holder's marking as duplicates
There are conflicting descriptions for marking as duplicates, if you are a gold tag badge holder.
Excerpt from the help center
...except for duplicate questions, which can be marked as duplicate ...
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Should dupehammer wielders use their powers to wipe obviously incorrect close-as-duplicate votes?
Occasionally, a user will cast a close-as-duplicate vote that's clearly incorrect. If that vote closes the question as duplicate, a gold tag badge user in a tag for the question ("dupehammer user") ...
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No "That solve my problem" button for not yet closed question
My question not yet closed as dup, but I can't see That solve my problem button in the header:
Where is the button?
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Can I close, re-open, and close again with the dupehammer on two different tags?
Related: Can't single-handedly reopen a dupehammered Q after editing gold tag to another gold tag
Say there's a question with two tags on which I have the gold badge. I dupehammered it once (with ...
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Why doesn't the "marked as duplicate" notice include the user who voted to close?
In this question, I got a notice that my question was a duplicate, and I clicked a button to confirm that it was.
But it says that only the Community user marked the question. Wouldn't it also ...
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What is the difference between "marked as duplicate" and "closed as duplicate"?
Sometimes questions are just "marked" and sometimes they are "closed" as duplicates.
Up until recently I thought it was "marked" when the question it's a duplicate of doesn't have an answer. But then ...
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Duplicate bug report, different "application version": which report to keep open?
I was doing some reviews on close votes, when I came to this question.
Cannot submit comment
It has been proposed as a dupe of Comment posting issue
As you can see, the original proposed question ...
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Is the message "This question may already have an answer here" shown after flags or only after close votes?
In some situations the banner is displayed which says that: "This question may already have an answer here" (followed by a link to the other question). Simultaneously, two options are shown: "that ...
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Detailed mechanics of closing as duplicate
I'm afraid this question itself is very likely to be a duplicate, but I haven't been able to find this information by searching Meta.
How exactly does the system decide when to close a question as a ...
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Years-old clearly duplicate questions not closed, weeks after voting to close
EDIT This question is about a general mechanism to draw attention to old questions that have received a new "close as duplicate" vote. It seems that the chances of an old duplicate question receiving ...
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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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Do moderators still have binding close votes for duplicate questions?
We just got a new UI for duplicate close votes. When someone flags it as a duplicate, it asks the user to see the if question that it might be a dupe of answers their question. They have the option to ...
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What does gold badge icon near user marked question as duplicate mean [duplicate]
Recently this question was marked by duplicate. Screenshot:
I see an icon of gold badge near user marked question as duplicate (j08691).
And how did he marked it as duplicate alone, not being a ...
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Mark as duplicate, original being deleted and unconsistent dialog showing [duplicate]
I just saw this question: using sed command grab lines between n blocks that had been posted by the same user one hour ago.
I marked as duplicate, but then the OP deleted the original, so now this is ...
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Did the "close as dup" auto-comment change?
I was looking at RSpec: how to test if a method was called? and s both a close-as-dup vote and a comment pointing to another question. However, instead of the usual comment format, it had "Check here: ...
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What should I do if a question was closed as unconstructive, when it actually is constructive but also a duplicate? [duplicate]
There was another meta discussion about this question recently.
The question had been closed as unconstructive, but it looked okay to me, so I cast a reopen vote. But then I thought, "this is a ...
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Voting mutually duplicates
Today I saw this question in the close vote review queue, which was flagged as exact duplicate of another question. Paradoxically, the possible duplicate was closed because it was a duplicate of the ...
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Close as exact duplicate doesn't work on mobile Safari
I cannot start closing question as duplicate from mobile Safari (tested on both iPhone and iPad). When I choose close as exact duplicate and paste url of the question the dialog freezes. The text is ...
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Can't vote to close as dupe on ios Safari
Tried to close a PHP question as a dupe, but after pasting the link or typing in the input box, the confirm button just stays disabled and the preview never appears. Took me ages to find the dupe link ...
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