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Update/recreate question with unhelpful answers [duplicate]
I asked a question a couple of months ago:
How to mitigate risk of having cash with you when abroad?
The answers were unhelpful ...as I added on a comment:
"be street-smart" and similar ...
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Was this question auto-deleted (roomba'ed) while being a duplicate? [duplicate]
I thought duplicates with no answers aren't deleted, but if negative score they're deleted. This was confirmed by this example:
But the FAQ led me here which says otherwise, namely it checks:
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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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Accidentally asked a question from my company account, deleted it and trying to post it from my personal account but says it's a duplicate [duplicate]
I have been trying to post my question with my personal account rather than the company's Stack Overflow Teams account after deleting it, but it says this question is a duplicate of a deleted one. ...
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Deleted duplicates should show the duplicate target(s)
Some questions on Stack Exchange sites get deleted, but they are still linked from various other places on the internet. I will use this deleted question from Mathematics Stack Exchange as an example....
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Why was the recent question about where to ask questions about Metasmoke and Smoke Detector deleted so quickly?
Another user recently asked the question Where can I ask questions about Metasmoke and Smoke Detector? and it was promptly closed as a duplicate of my older question Where can questions about our ...
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Allow unique titles of automatically deleted duplicate questions to remain as signposts for searchability even after the questions are gone
This is a synthesis of two feature requests, one quite recent and the other quite old:
Request: Don't delete duplicate questions and please think twice before downvoting them
Can we have the ability ...
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Can (and should) duplicate questions be automatically deleted? [duplicate]
Yesterday a question of mine on EL&U, Is “shipping” today's equivalent of “matchmaking”? [duplicate], which had been closed as a duplicate, was deleted automatically by the system.
deleted by ...
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How can I delete a duplicate question? [duplicate]
Here there is a "insightful" question about basic programming with 105 upvotes, and it has got 14 answers. But okay, life is not fair , so asking about the unfairness also gets 75 upvotes.
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How is it possible that a +2 question gets deleted? [duplicate]
I answered this question on SO.
Now I see that it got deleted - but the upvote count for the question shows +2. How is it possible that non-moderators would see the "delete" link ... that only shows ...
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Should ALL duplicate questions be preserved?
Yesterday I voted to delete several old questions that were closed as duplicates. The questions (and the same goes for the targets really) were not a good fit for our site (Ask Ubuntu) and, if they ...
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Advise users not to delete their question when it is closed as duplicate
Background: having duplicates around is not bad. It is even useful, e.g. easier to find the original due to the additional key words, etc.
That said, I see many users delete their question shortly ...
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MSE missing duplicate targets, other missing PostLinks
I noticed a question here with a missing duplicate target and did a little digging.
According to this query (or this similar query on PostsWithDeleted), on MSE, there are:
356 questions whose ...
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Auto-fix duplicates of questions deleted by the Roomba
While normal users can no longer vote to delete questions that have other questions closed as duplicates of them, the automatic deletion script (a.k.a. the Roomba) still can, and does, delete such ...
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Is there any way to move my answer from one question to another?
A few days after answering a question on Mathematics, I noticed that it had been marked as duplicate.
I know that questions marked as duplicate are sometimes deleted after a while, though I'm not ...
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