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This sounds like a good idea.
Listening to the community is a good idea. Experimenting is a good idea. Setting a specific time to review the results is a good idea.
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What to do about users posting the same question from multiple accounts?
If you have a suspicion of sock puppetry, or other account shenanigans, raise a custom flag and mods can investigate it.
If it's a duplicate to a recently asked question, it's probably the result of ...
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Is there a duplicate for that? Pokémon GO Edition
Here is a list of the most commonly repeatedly asked questions. These are almost all related to technical issues that people are having with the game.
Pokemon Go login issues after update
Is it ...
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Should we reword the closure text for duplicate questions?
It seems the consensus is to change the wording to be geared towards editing the current question, rather than asking another. I propose the quote should be:
This question has been asked before ...
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A question I answered was closed as a duplicate - should I answer the linked question?
Yes, if you think your answer is better than existing answers, post it! We want the best answers we can get.
See: Duplicate answers and you
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Duplicate Questions: A New Look
I agree with the idea in general, and I've argued for some subset of this in the past. The most problematic case in my view was the one where the new question is a very specific one, and closed as a ...
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Handling these duplicate questions
I merged the old question into the new question. Now we have all the answers from both on a single, better-worded question.
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Duplicate Questions: A Result?
This came up so infrequently that it's pretty difficult to make a policy decision based on the results. On the other hand, this came up so infrequently and was such a low burden that, to me, it makes ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
A record of questions affected by this meta post:
(I feel it's helpful to record results to evaluate if a change was effective or not.)
What do I get from playing a Seasonal character without RoS? ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
I cannot, in good conscience, support this rule. My arguments have already been made. To that end, I am abstaining from voting on duplicates completely until the time period has passed. I will not ...
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Why is every question I ask getting deleted?
If your questions are indeed different from existing questions, you can (and often have to) specify that, and they won't be deleted.
These two questions are the only ones you seem to have asked:
Is ...
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Please make more strict rules about what is to be considered a duplicate and what isn't!
First, you can find our current duplicate question policy in this question.
The first question you reference, the one about No Man's Sky, not only is still open, but it has only one close vote. The ...
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How many questions have been marked as a duplicate of "Is there a list of error codes for Minecraft?"
Someone already made a query, and it looks like there are currently 62 active questions duped to the list of error codes questions. This list doesn't include deleted questions or newly duped ...
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Duplicate Questions: A New Look
Yeah I'm with Frank on this one. There are plenty of ways to search for questions about a specific game, search using game tags and rephrasing your question in the search bar. There's also nothing ...
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Marking questions as duplicate
Arqade is moderated by the community, but before you get access to all the moderation features we have to trust that you won't use them for bad things. The 'reputation' number next to a user's name is ...
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Why does my duplicate deserve so many downvotes?
The reason it was downvoted is probably because it lacks research effort. I did a quick google search with this text:
steam how can I stop getting notifications when my friends start games?
And I ...
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Random/erratic duplicate marking
It seems pretty clear to me that this answer is better than either of the answers at your question. As such, we'd rather encourage people to go to to the question with that answer rather than to the ...
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Question incorrectly marked as duplicate of question about an unrelated game
I have removed the erroneous duplicate from the list. In the future, flagging the post for moderator attention would also be an effective way to contact us directly.
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Can we have a "Feature x glitches out" duplicate target for all Pokemon Go performance problem questions?
This is not a good idea. Closing a question as a duplicate is meant to be done when the questions are duplicates, not when the answers are duplicates.
Among other things, this causes a problem where ...
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How to get an up to date answer for old questions with obsolete answers?
I think it's pretty clear from the comment votes that the only thing we all agree on is there is a problem here.
In a perfect world, a new question is asked, marked as a dupe, asker either a) ...
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Duplicate Questions: A New Look
My 2 cents.
That comes straight from the Low Quality Review Queue prompts for a reason to suggest deletion of an answer. To me, this indicates that if the question is indeed different, then we should ...
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How similar can questions be?
I'm going to quote myself from my answer here where I covered this subject.
Questions should not be closed as duplicates based on the similarity of the answers. While similarity of answers may be ...
DragonrageMod
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Duplicate Questions: A New Look
So having fallin victim to this with my question:
with hardcore mode set if your guide dies is he dead forever (deleted need 10k to see) being marked as a dupe of Can NPCs really die? I am all for ...
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How to get an up to date answer for old questions with obsolete answers?
Our duplicate policy shouldn't apply to outdated questions
Stack Exchange works around votes and accepted answers, allowing good answers to rise to the top. This does not work as intended if answers ...
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On ending Chronological Oppression with respect to the matter of Question Duplication
It's a bit unclear what the action item is here. There is a proposal in the question and two answers contesting it with none supporting it. Does that mean that no one supports the proposal in the ...
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Is a specific question a duplicate of a general question?
At a glance, these questions may be mistaken as duplicates. However, I, and a few others, have shown that the "duplicate" question is actually not a duplicate.
The latter question asks a simple ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Gaming / Arqade
The project is drawing to a close, and I am planning to take down the annotation interface this weekend.
Thank you very much to everyone who helped out, and thank you for all the valuable feedback ...
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Duplicate Questions: A Trial
I'm not sure what you mean by if the existing question helps the new asker. (Note this is the first time I've seen anything about this)
Look at this Question for example. It is asking what are all ...
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