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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 ...
Timmy JimMod
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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 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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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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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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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 ...
RobotnikMod
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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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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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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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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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How should we handle these two similar Minecraft world border questions?
Close the 2017 question as unclear
On second thought it's very vague about what it means. The accepted answer answers something completely different than my interpretation of the question and is ...
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Why was my flag on a resolved duplicate comment declined?
The question was not originally closed as a duplicate of the question that was in that comment, so the comment was not automatically deleted. I accidentally closed the question as a duplicate of an ...
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Highly Upvoted Question is in its essense a duplicate of another Question
If you think a question is a duplicate of another, vote to close it as such. A question's score has no bearing on whether it's a duplicate or not.
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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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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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Duplicate Questions: A Result?
Based on our list of possible duplicates, I can't see how this whole thing was anything but an utter waste of everyone's time. We honestly spent more time arguing about the implementation of this ...
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Are questions asking for updated info duplicates?
We should clearly not just update old answers with new info: someone might still be interested in the old version of Minecraft, and the one adding new info doesn't get much reputation for that. Stuff ...
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Why is the community bot closing questions?
It's because the Community bot...
Owns the close vote when an asker agrees with a pending duplicate close vote.
- Meta SE FAQ post: Who is the Community user?
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Can we use a canonical question for Pokemon Go system requirements?
status-completed
All of the above questions (bar one) have been marked as a duplicate of the canonical question: How to check if my device will run Pokemon Go? What devices are supported?, on which I ...
RobotnikMod
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Question is still linked to another question that has been removed from the list of duplicates
status-bydesign
'Linked posts' is pretty dumb, it just grabs any and all linked posts in the question, answers, and comments, irrespective of whether that post or comment is deleted.
In other words, ...
RobotnikMod
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Question incorrectly marked as duplicate of question about an unrelated game
Only ♦ moderators (and gold tag badge holders, but there are none in the openttd tag) can edit the list of duplicates. Opening a Meta topic works (there's a special moderator inbox which includes new ...
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How similar can questions be?
Looking at the quote from the older question:
If you ask a question similar to another question and it is likely to get the exact same answer, you have yourself a duplicate question
The important ...
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Handling dupes asking for updated info
Honestly, this should never have been reopened. The duping process did exactly what it was supposed to. Answers got updated, helping the asker of the new question, and all was good.
This insistence ...
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404 error when flagging a question as a duplicate
status-completed
This Meta SE Bug Report figured out it was an issue to do with privileges. The developers removed the option when the user doesn't meet the required privilege level:
if a flag type ...
RobotnikMod
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Can we have a "Feature x glitches out" duplicate target for all Pokemon Go performance problem questions?
Late answer, but we did end up creating a canonical question for the most common server load issues that Pokemon Go/Niantic faced:
I can't play Pokemon GO! What's wrong?
If you find any more, feel ...
RobotnikMod
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