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How to put alternative / synonym words (phrases) in questions?
Alternative question:
When multiple known cases will match answer for your question,
what's the best way to pack them in the question title (or body)?
Additionally to this question itself, an example ...
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What can I do if I want to ask a more specific version of an earlier question on a Stack Exchange site?
To provide context, on the Law Stack Exchange, I'd like to be more specific than the question here:
Are cheater plugs illegal in the USA?
I'd like to know specifically if it's illegal to use currently-...
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Ebooks or Graphic Design Stack Exchange for a question about using InDesign to create ebooks?
I have a question about exporting eBooks from InDesign: How to tell InDesign to skip color in css export for the ePub export
I asked it on Graphic Design Stack Exchange. But I do not know if that was ...
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Please tweak the behavior of the dupe "does this answer your question?" message so it does not suck
I have no problem with my question being closed as a dupe; hey, I got an answer! Yet, the way the "Does this answer your question" message works is not great at all. Let me explain.
I post ...
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What should I do when my question is already asked and has a bad answer that is definitive, or even bounty-rewarded? [duplicate]
I have seen many cases where my possible question would automatically stand as a duplicate of an older one that seems to have answers, but these are bad, old, or just "no" answers providing ...
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Asking a question that *must* have been asked before but I can't find
I have a question I'd like to pose on the Stack Overflow site, but I'm sure it's been asked before - I've not seen it before, but it's so fundamentally useful to the specific thing I'm doing (that ...
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How do I protest a duplicate question? [duplicate]
I feel that two people incorrectly marked my question as a duplicate.
How to write large binary data fast in Java?
On its face, my question is about large amounts of binary data, not just opening a ...
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I subsequently realised that I asked a duplicate question
That's because I stumbled upon the original question; at the time my question was not shown to be under suspicion or anything.
What's the right thing to do in that case?
It happened recently: I ...
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What to do when I know my question would be a duplicate? [duplicate]
I'm searching for a solution for a problem/question I'm almost 100% sure was asked before but I can't find it.
It is a generic question, no way that it wasn't asked before but no matter how many ways ...
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Why don't users identify duplicates when asking question?
I just saw something that's hard to explain - maybe someone has some ideas.
A user just asked a (java programming) question titled:
Difference between replace and replaceAll
Which was closed ...
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Should I ask a new question related to an existing question?
I found a question which I wanted to ask on Stack Overflow, the questioner has commented the answer on question itself.
Now I need a clarification on their comments, but as I don't have enough ...
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Avoiding Question Flagged as Duplicate when Couldn't Find Question in Search [duplicate]
I've recently been flagged for a question and it was marked as duplicate. How do I not get flagged for duplicate questions when I searched for a similar question but the search did not result in the ...
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Unknowingly ask an already asked question [duplicate]
I asked a question yesterday on SO, as I was not able to get an answer using Google, and some time later a member posted a thread reference which had an answer to my question.
That thread contains ...
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When is it okay to ask the same question again?
I previously ask a question about the SO licence and it came up that something like that was ask already 3 years ago. I checked the Q & A's before but most likely missed it.
As a result of that, ...
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False positives with automatic duplicate detection and question differentiation
I recently asked and answered a question and the site has auto-tagged it as a duplicate of another question.
The error mentioned in both questions is the same, (1, -2147483648), but the solutions ...
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