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Should we do anything to promote useful answers on duplicate questions?
I previously asked this on Space Exploration Meta as Should we do anything for answers on duplicate questions?. The basic train of thought is as follows:
A question was closed as a duplicate. During ...
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A user answering duplicate questions and dupe-hammering them afterwards [duplicate]
For a long time now a six-figure user has been consistently answering questions from a certain tag and dupe-hammering quite a few of them right afterwards. I didn't think much of it until recently:
I ...
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The Help Center implies that it's OK to answer duplicate questions if there aren't many duplicates; is this correct?
The Help Center article on how to write a good answer contains the following section:
Not all questions can or should be answered here. Save yourself some
frustration and avoid trying to answer ...
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What happens with "Does this answer your question?" - Yes [duplicate]
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When one/more users suggest another post answers your question (and there is a banner at the top of the page asking if question title answers your question? Yes/No), what physically happens ...
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Why not upvote the answer that is used to mark another question as duplicate?
A lot of questions get marked as a duplicate on a daily basis, which means the answers on some other question is being helpful for the OP, which means it deserves an upvote, right? So why not just ...
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Should we search in answers too, to avoid asking a question about that same matter? [duplicate]
Can asking a question that has an answer in another question result in being duplicate?
For example, imagine someone wants to ask if the recipe in this website is really original or not.
He tries to ...
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Does question being closed prevent bounty being started on exemplary answer to it? [duplicate]
I wanted to award a bounty to this answer to Selecting the answer - I'm sure this must have been asked
The answer was posted three days ago and the question was closed two days ago, and yet the ...
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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.
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Earlier answer edited to duplicate later answer in full
I recently revisited an old answer of mine to an even older question, and was a bit surprised by the changes I saw;
I came across this question in 2013. At that point, the question had been asked ...
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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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Why can't you delete duplicate questions with answers?
So why can't you delete duplicate questions with answers?
I asked a question and I researched as much as I could have. But, after I asked someone posted a question that had completely different ...
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Add a feature for similarity comparison [duplicate]
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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How to be more polite and accommodating? [duplicate]
Here's my beef. I've noticed over the past couple of days, and even before I joined this (the StackExchange) community that most of you aren't kind to your fellow user. I'm not trying to get up on a ...
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How did this duplicate question manage to be answered after being marked as duplicate? [duplicate]
This question on TSE was marked as duplicate on 2016/02/24 at 15:52:19Z. It was then answered on 2016/02/24 at 15:52:52Z, seconds after being marked as duplicate.
How is this possible? Is there a ...
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How to handle answers that are duplicates of existing answers [duplicate]
The following answer hit the low quality post queue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33472146/2312877
Now the answer is extremely similar to many of the already upvoted answers on the question, most of ...
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