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What's the longest question duplicate chain on SE?
I wonder what the longest question duplicate chain is on SE. For example, Matching files with various extensions using for loop is closed a duplicate of Brace expansion with variable?, which is closed ...
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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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Can we bring ancient duplicates up to date?
In the past, before we had the current closure notes the community user edited in the possible duplicates inside the text of the question, once the question got closed. See for example here.
Today ...
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If a duplicating question has good quality, and the duplicated question is bad, should the relation be reversed?
For example, let's see this question from ELL: "I have no question"--> "Me, too" or "Me, either"?
Let's call this A. Question A is on top of my Google search, currently has 4 upvotes and considerably ...
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Duplicate questions are helpful and shouldn't be closed as duplicates [closed]
Some questions are closed as duplicates but mostly when I search randomly, the duplicates that I find are helpful. So why are they closed as duplicates? Even when the question is edited, moderators ...
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Duplicate questions without answers [duplicate]
Yesterday i was trying to answer 2 questions on SO, but when i finished typing the questions was closed because they were duplicate.
One of the question was answered by a really not that good of an ...
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Does closing a question as a duplicate of a locked one makes sense?
This question has been closed by a moderator as a duplicate of this one.
Is this really reasonable? Now even if I wanted to move my answer to the original question, I can't because it's locked. No ...
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Should questions be marked as duplicates when the duplicate content is buried in an edit?
I wrote a feature-request regarding adding in a badge icon for the top bar achievements popout. However, as I finished it up, I realized it was a duplicate.
Specifically, it was a duplicate of this ...
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Edit on duplicate questions
Since there is a facility to edit the question which is marked as a duplicate is available, the user can edit the question almost entirely including the title of the question.
So after the edit, the ...
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Which types of closed questions are unlikely to be deleted?
Because of the lack of any meaningful information on deletions, the only way for people who don't work for StackExchange to do useful statistical analysis on question closures (to answer questions ...
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Should Eric Lippert's timeless answer about the C++ memory model be closed as a duplicate?
Eric Lippert's hotel analogy for the C++ memory model is one of the best answers on SO. The question it's in response to, Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope, is currently ...
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Should a question be closed as "duplicate" when the cited "original" was asked **after** the first one? [duplicate]
While doing my time in the review queue, this question (question A) came up as a possible duplicate, with this question (question B) cited as the "best original." Being a thorough person, I checked ...
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What further steps can I take to distinguish a question incorrectly closed as duplicate? [duplicate]
The perfect question for my problem is erroneously closed as a duplicate. The one answer doesn't work; in fact, it's an answer to the (allegedly) duplicated question. Maybe that (and the fact that the ...
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Duplicate questions versus duplicate answers
I often see situations where a question is tagged as a duplicate because there is a different question whose answer also answers this question.
As an example, set attribute with javascript super ...
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Why do we actively refer users to already existing answers of questions? [duplicate]
EDIT: I mean in the context of Stack Overflow, but other sites in the Stack Exchange may apply.
I just don't understand cases when, for e.g., somebody asks a very specific question, and a user, ...
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What to do about non-duplicate question about to be closed as duplicate?
I'm a little concerned about a question I recently asked.
Someone came along and voted to close as duplicate but it seems that was done without reading the two questions (you can see the other ...
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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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Duplicate leads to closed as not constructive
Root: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8329254/tomcat-7-vs-jetty
... is marked as a dupe, which leads to:
Tomcat VS Jetty
... which is closed a not constructive.
I am confused. And here I was ...
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Should a question's closed reason be changed from NARQ to duplicate if a duplicate is found?
I just answered a C# question that was asked by someone who clearly doesn't know C#. The question was almost immediately closed. I don't have a problem with the question being closed, but I do have ...
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Should questions be marked as duplicates of closed or otherwise disabled questions?
I recently answered a question on SO that was marked as a duplicate:
Selecting specific rows of a matrix in Matlab
However, the question was marked as a duplicate of another question. No problem, ...
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Question closed as duplicate could not be found by the OP
Today I answered this question on StackOverflow.
The OP was asking what was wrong with his piece of code, and the answer was that he was missing the template keyword. The OP was likely unaware of ...
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Closing for exact duplicate - does the duplicate have to have an answer too?
I just noticed, if you vote to close a question because of exact duplicate, the text states This question has been asked before and already has an answer. It's the second part of that statement that ...
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Question closed as DuplicateThough Its unrelated
Re: Duplicate const_cast vs reinterpret_cast
Based on the reply to this Meta Question how to appeal a closed question? I am appealing for a reopen
I had asked a Question in SO viz Reinterpret Cast ...
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Question marked as duplicate of itself
What should I do when I see a question marked as a duplicate of itself? I am referring to this question:
How to validate email address
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Why is my question about defaulted methods closed?
My question, is closed as an exact duplicate of this question.
Of course there are similarities but my question's point is (more) on "what are defaulted methods" and not like in the other question ...
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Maybe we should close the earlier unanswered duplicate
I'm wondering if it doesn't make more sense to close the earlier duplicate, if the earlier duplicate is unanswered.
As of now, I think, we close the most recent duplicate, regardless of answered-...
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Some love for good answers on closed duplicates
If a question is closed because it is a duplicate, the (current) explanation says:
This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with ...
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Spaces vs. Tabs - the sequel to the sequel to the sequel
There has been YAQASvsT (Yet Another Question About Spaces vs Tabs).
I spotted this particular question Do good reasons for using tabs or spaces for indentation exist? on the Recently Reopened list on ...
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Are SQL Server reading recommendations from 2008 considered canonical? [closed]
This question:
Recommended SQL Server / T-SQL book
Got closed as a duplicate of:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59264/reading-recommendations-for-microsoft-sql-server
The original question is ...
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Users who close a question for being a duplicate and don't take the time to read both questions!
I find it annoying that some users quickly vote for closing a question just based on similarity in the question title, claiming a duplicate. It seems that they didn't take any time in reading the new ...
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Duplicate questions that may result in different answers since the original was asked
There is a question I want to ask on stackoverflow regarding views on free web development ide's. The question is inherently subjective and it is also a duplicate, in a sense.
However, the question ...
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Are high search engine hits to questions marked as duplicates ever analysed?
Following on from Jeff Atwood's article:
Dr. Strangedupe: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Duplication
Do the team ever analyse hits from Google Search on questions marked as duplicates (...
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Should I close a master question in favor of one of its duplicate questions?
Should I close a question that is the master of already closed duplicates in favor of a more recent question that has better answers?
Until now I generally closed questions as duplicates only in ...
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Why do some users ask duplicates of their own questions?
This question was closed as a duplicate to this question.
I was one of the people who voted to close it as a duplicate, but I can't figure out for the life of me why some users would ask the exact ...
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Why does a question that was closed as a dupe remain closed after the dupe is deleted?
It's kind of a bummer that this question was closed as a dupe for 4 reasons:
The duplicate question was created as a snarky (yet funny) joke after the fact.
The duplicate question has since been ...
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Should obvious dupes be edited?
Somewhat related question: Should we edit obvious spam?
I am one of the people who gets bothered by poorly written posts. My eyes key in on things like sentence fragment "titles" on the main page ...
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Etiquette for duplicate, yet unanswered questions [duplicate]
I've seen before where some questions get closed as duplicates of unanswered(or even closed) questions. Is this behavior that should be encouraged?
For instance, there has been a few times where I ...
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