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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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Should we search in answers too, to avoid asking a question about that same matter? [duplicate]
Can asking a question that has an answer in another question result in being duplicate?
For example, imagine someone wants to ask if the recipe in this website is really original or not.
He tries to ...
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Moving a two-month old post across sites denied [duplicate]
I asked this question two month back. It got answer which does not quite work for me. A while after I came back to the problem at hand and decided to flag my post to have it moved to Math.SE or CS.SE....
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"Am I doing it right"-type question for an existing question?
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Existing question: How do I do xyz?
Existing answer 1: you do A
Existing answer 2: you can also do B
Existing answer 3: or you can do C
Question
If I have a "Am I doing it right" ...
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How are we supposed to define what makes a question better? [duplicate]
When reviewing Reopen votes on Stack Overflow this morning I stumbled across a case that was generating some heat: vote to close a question as duplicate, even though it's much older than the other. ...
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What is an appropriate way to indicate a previously asked question needs to be readdressed? [duplicate]
I'm about to use a specific example to highlight a general question
I recently posted an answer to What to do with cross-site duplicates? That question was originally asked, and a best-answer chosen,...
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Questions marked as duplicate refer to the duplicate, but the other way around does not occur
Sometimes when a question is marked as a duplicate it has already 'developed' into an interesting Q&A link.
An example is Could dark matter be wrong? on the Astronomy website which is marked as ...
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What is the course of action if I find a better duplicate for a question already closed as duplicate?
What to do when I find a duplicate question - often already marked as duplicate, and I find that the question is indeed a duplicate, but much better answered in a different question, so that it may be ...
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Where does a supplementary question belong?
If I see a question about a certain topic and want to ask a supplementary question about it, where should I ask it? I'm afraid a new question will be marked as a duplicate, and heavily downvoted so ...
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Is it acceptable to edit someone else's question which entirely changes the original question OR ask a question that may be marked as duplicate? [duplicate]
Is it acceptable to modify a question (adding details and conditions to obtain the situation) which seems similar to the problem one encounter rather than creating a new question which might be marked ...
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How do I request a question be re-answered? [duplicate]
Say I have the question "How do I solve A". I do a search, and I find that Bob has already posted this exact question. He has also posted an answer, in which he says "I figured out I could avoid the ...
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Do duplicate questions count as "well-received" for the Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic badges? [duplicate]
Do questions marked as duplicate, even with a positive score, count for badges that need well-received questions?
For example, if I had 5 questions with a positive score in 5 different days, but one ...
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Why are there two separate boxes about duplicate questions?
There is one box at the top with links to the duplicates, and one box under the question, starting with "marked as duplicate by ...". Actually I have never seen the links before today - I have totally ...
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Where to ask questions, that are related to 2 Different sub-Sites? [duplicate]
I have a question about how to mount best a DSLR camera to an aeroplane.
But now I'm wondering, where I would have to ask it? The camera does also have to be controlled from inside the plane.
In the ...
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In what situation can I post a similar question without it being closed as a duplicate? [duplicate]
I came across two different situations which seem to require a reasonable duplication of a question:
Is it allowed to post the same question related to the same issue, but in two different languages?
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