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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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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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Closing a question as a duplicate of an off-topic question
What should I do when an off-topic question is asked that is also a duplicate of another closed off-topic question?
Close the new question with the off topic reason?
Mark the new question as a ...
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Link to the question being duplicated in the duplicated close reason
I came across this thread on hacker news:
"This question has been asked before and already has an answer."
This is the single MOST ANNOYING thing about stack exchange. WHERE was this question ...
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What is the process by which a question is marked as duplicate by Community♦? [duplicate]
For example https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/77966/121 was:
marked as duplicate by Jens, bbgodfrey, Community♦ 10 hours ago
Neither Jens nor bbgodfrey hold a Gold tag badge applicable to ...
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When a question is closed for duplicate and <other-reason>, shouldn't the duplicate be shown?
It sometimes happens that a question has more than one problem, and could be closed for all of those. When that happens, the reason that collected most votes is chosen as the close reason: there can ...
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Why are we not doing more to encourage duplicate question closures?
We have some feature requests.
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions - 4 years 6 months open
Help us find duplicates efficiently - 1 month open
Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +...
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The little icon for new gold badge super closing powers doesn't always appear
Here's a counter-example of the expected gold circle icon:
Compare with:
I'm not certain of when the powers came into play, precisely, but since FredOverflow is neither a moderator nor the owner of ...
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What's on with "edit your question" inside duplicates messages?
When a question is closed as duplicate, we get such message:
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please edit this ...
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Good duplicate questions archive
I know, I'm not the first to talk about this idea, but I haven't found anything useful which is less than a couple of years old...
It seems that vast majority of questions which need to be closed ...
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Does the new guidance on duplicate questions suggest closing a question as duplicate, if the original answers the OP's question?
In other words, should we now look at the content of the answers when we are evaluating questions for possible duplication? Is it sufficient to say "Your answer can be found in this question over ...
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Are the criteria for which questions is a duplicate of which based on date of posting or quality of answers?
As an example, this 2011 question:
setTimeout with zero delay used often in web pages, why?
was marked as duplicate of this 2009 one:
Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful?
However, in my ...
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Questions closed as duplicate include references to those that do not answer the question
As an example, consider the following question:
Review Audit shows an answer that's duplicate
I flagged it (incorrectly) as a duplicate of Review-beta: Obviously good answer in low-quality and ...
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Add optional cross-site "already asked" link to off-topic close reason
This topic was already discussed in Allow cross-site duplicate closing feature request. It was badly received and I generally agree, but it has some valid points.
So far conclusions that was not ...
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Marking as duplicate should be time sensitive
Some questions are marked as duplicates years after they were initially asked. It seems that if it took that long to find a duplicate, then the original question (the one being duplicated) was poorly ...
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