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What can I do if I disagree on the reason a question was closed, and believe it should have instead been closed as a duplicate? [duplicate]
What can I do if a question was closed for reason A but I believe that it should have been closed for reason B? Is the only option to vote to reopen it and then vote to close it again with reason B?
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Should I paraphrase the cross-site duplicate when posting it as an answer?
This Stack Overflow question had an answer on Software Engineering. After reading this answer here, I went ahead and posted an answer, since I feel like that question is on topic on both sites.
In ...
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Closing a question as a duplicate of an off-topic question
What should I do when an off-topic question is asked that is also a duplicate of another closed off-topic question?
Close the new question with the off topic reason?
Mark the new question as a ...
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Link to the question being duplicated in the duplicated close reason
I came across this thread on hacker news:
"This question has been asked before and already has an answer."
This is the single MOST ANNOYING thing about stack exchange. WHERE was this question ...
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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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When a question is closed for duplicate and <other-reason>, shouldn't the duplicate be shown?
It sometimes happens that a question has more than one problem, and could be closed for all of those. When that happens, the reason that collected most votes is chosen as the close reason: there can ...
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Why are we not doing more to encourage duplicate question closures?
We have some feature requests.
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions - 4 years 6 months open
Help us find duplicates efficiently - 1 month open
Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +...
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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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What's on with "edit your question" inside duplicates messages?
When a question is closed as duplicate, we get such message:
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please edit this ...
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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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Does the new guidance on duplicate questions suggest closing a question as duplicate, if the original answers the OP's question?
In other words, should we now look at the content of the answers when we are evaluating questions for possible duplication? Is it sufficient to say "Your answer can be found in this question over ...
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Are the criteria for which questions is a duplicate of which based on date of posting or quality of answers?
As an example, this 2011 question:
setTimeout with zero delay used often in web pages, why?
was marked as duplicate of this 2009 one:
Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful?
However, in my ...
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Questions closed as duplicate include references to those that do not answer the question
As an example, consider the following question:
Review Audit shows an answer that's duplicate
I flagged it (incorrectly) as a duplicate of Review-beta: Obviously good answer in low-quality and ...
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Add optional cross-site "already asked" link to off-topic close reason
This topic was already discussed in Allow cross-site duplicate closing feature request. It was badly received and I generally agree, but it has some valid points.
So far conclusions that was not ...
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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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"Closed as Duplicate" text is misleading when the duplicate is from the same user [duplicate]
This question was recently closed on Stack Overflow as a duplicate of another question. That original question did not have any answers.
However, the close reason clearly states:
This question ...
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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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Why is an older question marked as duplicate [duplicate]
I asked a question, but now it has been marked as duplicate. When checking, the referred to question is actually newer. Why isn't the other question marked as duplicate? The duplicate-text also seems ...
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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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Why are questions closed as duplicates if you could have never found them without knowing the answer?
This question on Stack Overflow was declared a duplicate, which is per the rules, but absurd.
The simple reason is that an intelligent person who had never seen the obscure feature, could not ...
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Allow Trusted Users to modify Closed As Duplicate link
There is a problem with duplicates not being handled well on the site over time as outlined here. Sometimes the chain leading to the best canonical question is too long, sometimes it doesn't even ...
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Related Questions
I have some few observations about closed questions
Some Questions closed as duplicate are not necessary duplicate but have similar title
Some Questions closed as duplicate contain duplicate links to ...
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Duplicate question changes - can't mark duplicates by same user
The changed duplicate functionality (just now?) won't let us mark a duplicate where an asker asks the same question twice in an effort to get a response. eg:
https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/...
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Closing question as exact duplicate when title contains symbol
I’d like to get some confirmation, or objection in case I’m wrong, on a topic about closing questions as exact duplicate. So far, I have always voted as duplicate when the other question handles the ...
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Text Search in Close duplicate box [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Duplicate Question Search Doesn’t Search Questions any more
I was just trying to close a duplicate without looking up the duplicate first. I've just gotten used to typing in ...
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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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What if a question is an exact duplicate of the conjunction of two other questions
For example I recently saw a question about the meaning of strong, weak, retain, assign, atomic, and nonatomic in Objective-C @property declarations.
There's no one existing question that covers all ...
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Are these questions about link to flagging history exact duplicates? [closed]
I am having hard time trying to figure what made two questions duplicates?
Here is how I read these
fix a minor glitch in a generally perfectly working feature
https://meta.stackexchange.com/...
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Should duplicates of closed questions be closed as duplicates or closed for the same reason as their parent question?
There is this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73185/what-is-your-favorite-build-server-package-cruise-control-team-city-etc#question
Which is really a duplicate of this question:
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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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Should we be closing bad questions as dupes of other bad questions?
Related: Re-posts of questions closed as OT or NARQ should also receive auto-downvote
Scenario:
A user (usually new user) posts two or more identical questions - both are clearly bad questions (NARQ, ...
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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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Close as cross post [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The ability to link cross site duplicates
I'd like a "close as cross post" option that allows me to provide a link to the question on the other site that was cross posted as. ...
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Add "from the Related sidebar" to the auto-generated "Possible duplicate" comment
Would it be possible for the auto-generated
possible duplicate of Blah blah blah
comment to add text like the following when the selected duplicate is in the sidebar?
possible duplicate of ...
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Re-posts of questions closed as OT or NARQ should also receive auto-downvote
Questions which are closed as either off-topic or not a real question are automatically downvoted by the community user. If a user (either through ignorance or insolence) then re-posts the same ...
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Duplicate close reason: Allow linking to duplicates on other sites
I thing an example would speak best of all:
Just asked on Programmers (actually migrated from StackOverflow):
Please remind me of a famous programming quote!
There is a perfect duplicate:
Great ...
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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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"Duplicate of...[deleted post]"
Some questions are getting closed as duplicates - good, the system is working. Unfortunately, some are getting closed as duplicates of other questions which are already deleted. This leaves all 1-9,...
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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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"Exact duplicate" lookup on Blur
Can you trigger the look-up when the textfield's blur event is raised? Often times I'll copy/paste the id of the duplicate question, and then click off of the textbox...and nothing happens. I then ...
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What to do with cross-site duplicates?
What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?
There are two flavors:
A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an ...
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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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What is an exact duplicate? [duplicate]
Lately, I've been seeing some pretty liberal definitions of "exact duplicate" in some people closing SO questions. If I recall correctly, Jeff had intended to make it so that there were loose rules ...