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What should I do if a question I'm considering asking would be closed as a duplicate, but I don't understand the duplicate's answer?
To make this clear, I’m asking about a question that I would have that has already been answered but is still difficult to understand or confuses me. I have read this on duplicates, but I’m wondering ...
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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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Data and statistics regarding the subject of duplicate questions?
Browsing the WordPress community, there seems to be many questions on the same exact problem, such as: using .htaccess to redirect to HTTPS... Obviously, we are not searching (enough) prior to asking.
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Are these duplicates just because they have similar answers: "capital of France" vs "largest city in France"?
As a general practise across different Stack Exchange communities, is it true that that one of these two questions should always be closed as a duplicate, since both questions have similar answers?
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I flag as duplicate, OP edits, how do I "retract"?
I recently flagged this post as a duplicate. It definitely was a spot on duplicate. In response the OP edited the question to change it's meaning almost entirely.
What is my correct cause of action ...
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What if a new question, that is a duplicate of an older one, gets an answer but not older one? [duplicate]
This may look similar to this. But it isn't as in that question; the problem was that both were similar questions and one (the new one) was better than the other (older one). So which one should ...
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What do we do about duplicate questions that are not closed?
I have previously added similar answers to duplicate questions. I did this because duplicate questions seem to occur frequently and do not get closed even when I flag them as duplicates.
What are we ...
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Are there any non-trivial examples of exact-duplicate answers to non-duplicate questions?
From time to time, discussions arise about the merits of posting identical answers to (allegedly) related-but-not-duplicate questions. In almost all of these, someone brings up the same argument that ...
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Unanswered question count
To mark an question duplicate in Stack Overflow we are using the below flag:
a duplicate...
This question has been asked before and already has an answer.
Is there a flag to mark a ...
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How should duplicate answers be handled? [duplicate]
What should I do when I see an unanswered question (or not well answered) which solution is the same of the answer to a different question?
Should I refer to the answer of the different question with ...
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Is it alright to close questions which are not exact duplicates of another question, but essentially the same?
So I recently closed a question as a duplicate: Can't access constructor after assigning prototype. Because I have a gold JavaScript badge I was able to arbitrarily mark the aforementioned ...
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How should we handle duplicate questions (with answers) that affect search results?
A consider the following scale of scenarios:
Duplicate question, no answers
Duplicate question, repeated answers but little effort
Duplicate question, same answers but with a lot of effort shown
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See how many duplicates of a post?
Can I see how many duplicates there are of a post? I.e. how many posts have been labelled as duplicate because of this post? If so, how? And can I also get a list of these duplicated posts?
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Falsely duplicate question on stackoverflow [duplicate]
I asked this question in stackoverflow and it was marked as a duplicate, which made sense, I guess I should 've mentioned I had already looked at that answer and it didn't help. I edited the question ...
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Suggestion for handling duplicate questions
When I find a question that has a notice telling me it was marked as a duplicate (and closed), it would really help if the notice included a link to that duplicate. I may have something to add, and I ...
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