Linked Questions
13 questions linked to/from When a question is merged, redirect original question URL to new one automatically
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Why do migrated questions lack redirection via HTTP response status code 301 (Moved Permanently)?
I've just been quite surprised to click on a highly ranked Google result for a Stack Overflow question just to end up on the search page, because the page doesn't exist anymore. I figured it might ...
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When merging questions, leave the duplicate one as a placeholder
It's been stated previously that duplicates have their uses. They sometimes indicate that a particular question couldn't be found with however the user searched for it.
Now while merging is often ...
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Days with a net loss of reputation ruin the reputation audit
First thing I did on May 24th was sack 150 reputation in order to promote discussion on a question (and in turn received a lot more upvotes than actual opinions or answers! What am I paying you guys ...
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Automatically Redirect on Merged/Migrated Questions
When questions have been merged/migrated to another trilogy site, it would be nice if the page still showed that it was migrated, but include a bar or some other indicator that said:
Please wait: ...
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Can we undelete and/or merge following questions?
According to Konrad's post on meta, And I know I seen some of his post with high votes deleted (I admit that I also involved), so I searched some of my saved data back in my pc. Here is I found so far....
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Redirect links to moved questions
When someone links to a question, at some time in the future the question that has been linked to may get moved to a more appropriate site. I have come across this several times while finding answers ...
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Meta question was deleted
The original question: How do I change my Profile Picture or Avatar? (I have less than 10K rep, so I can't see the question anymore.)
When I originally posted the question, I realized that someone ...
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How can I see my merged question? Why was it merged?
I know it is offtopic and I will delete my question as soon as I get any answer, but somebody merged my question. The question was opened for the whole day, but when I got 3 reopens and edited my ...
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Where did this question go?
Yesterday I was reading through the responses to "what is the best programming paper you have read". I left the tab on my browser open & hit "refresh" today to see what the latest answers are. ...
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Allow undelete votes before deletion occurs
Like the feature-request that's out there to allow reopen votes to be cast simultaneously with close votes, let's allow undelete votes to be cast simultaneously with delete votes.
I've noticed a few ...
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What is so special about merging duplicates that need locking for the merge source?
In the improvement about implementation of question there's no indication why the stub should be locked, since the only difference between a merged question and a duplicate is that answers in one were ...
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Improve merging of questions
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Following the recent (re-)deletion of some (in my opinion) valuable questions, I flagged the questions listed by S.Mark for moderator attention and they kindly merged them with their ...
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Can answers on merged questions be reflected onto the closed counterparts?
This is probably a lot of complexity to implement, but I think it's something that would be helpful to consider. Something that can be thought of down the road.
There are many who regard the ability ...
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