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Implement {duplicate}, {closed} etc. tags as UI elements, rather than appending text [duplicate]
At this point, I am very much used to closed/duplicate questions being marked with [closed] or [duplicate] text in their title:
But what exactly is stopping us from implementing it as an actual ...
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What's the longest question duplicate chain on SE?
I wonder what the longest question duplicate chain is on SE. For example, Matching files with various extensions using for loop is closed a duplicate of Brace expansion with variable?, which is closed ...
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Posting Q & A, then closing the Q as duplicate?
I posted a question and answered it myself. I then self-closed this question as a dupe. Is this an accepted practice?
I wanted the next person who steps on this rake to be able to quickly find the ...
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Wrong instructions in email about duplicate question
I just got another email because one of my questions was closed as a duplicate. The mail (screenshot) suggests me to
Select the suggestions that answer your question. Your question will be associated ...
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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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When closing a question as a duplicate of a duplicate, automatically link to the non-duplicate question
I've just stumbled across this question and was surprised to see it closed as a duplicate of an already closed question.
First of all, declaring a question as a duplicate of a closed question seems ...
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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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Can we bring ancient duplicates up to date?
In the past, before we had the current closure notes the community user edited in the possible duplicates inside the text of the question, once the question got closed. See for example here.
Today ...
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Question can't be duplicate of unclear question [duplicate]
If a question A is closed as unclear, it means that it is unknown what the asker meant. (Otherwise the question would have been edited rather than closed.)
If some question B is unclear (also if it's ...
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(Add an option to) include closed questions in SE Filtered Questions
Stack Exchange's Filtered Questions is a tool where users can see a list of 100 questions based on certain rules from multiple sites on the same page. However, closed questions are currently excluded ...
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Allow questions to be closed as duplicates without having them reopened first
TL;DR: I want to have my question closed as a duplicate. But first I need to have the question reopened so it can be closed as a duplicate.
On The Workplace, I posted the question How early should I ...
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If a duplicating question has good quality, and the duplicated question is bad, should the relation be reversed?
For example, let's see this question from ELL: "I have no question"--> "Me, too" or "Me, either"?
Let's call this A. Question A is on top of my Google search, currently has 4 upvotes and considerably ...
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Duplicate questions are helpful and shouldn't be closed as duplicates [closed]
Some questions are closed as duplicates but mostly when I search randomly, the duplicates that I find are helpful. So why are they closed as duplicates? Even when the question is edited, moderators ...
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What is the difference between exact duplicate and just duplicate?
The questions Why does Meta Stack Exchange have privileges that don't have any effect? and Meta Meta Privilege were both marked as duplicates.
However, one of them has a different "marked as ...
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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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