Timeline for Closing duplicate questions by the same poster
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Feb 8, 2015 at 10:26 | comment | added | Marc van Leeuwen | @user1551: Note however that while the banner indeed says This question is an exact duplicate, it also says below the question This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question. I find this rather ironic, as if an invitation to ask for a third time. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | user1551 | Update: I have just closed a duplicate question that had been posted before by the same author. After closure, the message shown in the banner is This question is an exact duplicate of: ... instead of This question already has an answer here. | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 13:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Fixup of bad MSO links to MSE links migration
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| Apr 23, 2014 at 9:10 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 6:38 | vote | accept | Mark Bennet | ||
| Jul 21, 2013 at 23:47 | comment | added | 40 votes | @MarkBennet If you are voting to close as a duplicate, you are certainly doing the right thing. Flagging for a mod to merge, or voting to delete, may also be right things to do in addition to closing. You are also right that the language of system messages is not flexible enough to cover some special cases. This is being discussed on meta.SO. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 18:11 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | The notice which appears is evident on the question I linked. My experience of deleting/flagging is limited. But there is a regular stream of exact duplicates by original posters on this site which are being closed as duplicates with the narrative we currently have. The question is what action someone like me (10k not 20k) should take (a) on noticing this first; or (b) on seeing it in the "close as duplicate" list. I asked because I thought I might not be doing the right thing. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 18:04 | comment | added | 40 votes | @MarkBennet That's what I addressed in my answer. (a) I have no evidence that the same (or any) notice appears when a question is closed as a duplicate of unanswered question. (b) Inventing a special notice for this purpose seems pointless, because the question should be merged or deleted anyway. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 18:01 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | But if it doesn't have an answer it should still be closed. If you want an impersonal version use "This question has been asked before by the same person and answers/comments should be recorded in response to the original question". | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 17:59 | comment | added | 40 votes | @MarkBennet I disagree with "More appropriate would be "You have asked the same question before."". That notice is intended not only for the OP, it's for everyone reading the post. For example, I did not ask that question before. The statement "This question has been asked before and already has an answer" is correct. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 17:57 | comment | added | 40 votes | @MarkBennet In order for a question to be deleted by non-moderators, it has to be closed first. After it's closed, 10K users can vote to delete; however they must wait 2 days to do so. But if the closed question has negative score, 20K users can vote to deleted it at once. On the other hand, flagging for mod attention is necessary if you want the questions to be merged. | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 17:56 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | Note that the question I linked has been closed as duplicate and the narritive says "This question has been asked before and already has an answer." More appropriate would be "You have asked the same question before." | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 17:52 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | This is not clear in the narrative - should we be flagging to delete rather than marking as duplicate? | |
| Jul 21, 2013 at 17:44 | history | answered | 40 votes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |