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Use a different template for duplicate automatic comments for reposted questions by the same user
It happens every now and then that a user reposts their question - maybe they don't know how to edit, maybe the question was closed and they wanted to dodge the review queue, or maybe they didn't get ...
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Could or should the "search first, ask question later" principle be made more prominently visible?
I'm relatively new (roughly a month), so please excuse any great misunderstandings.
Presumptions / Impressions:
(A) It may vary a bit per case or community, but in general, the approach seems to be ...
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Please improve the design for "duplicates list edited" in post revisions page
Ever since the release of the feature that allowed users with the dupe/gold hammer privilege to edit a question's duplicate list, there hasn't been any improvement to how it is displayed in the post ...
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Timeline duplicate list edited, suggest improvement
Thank you for the introducing the timeline. It gives you a great overview about what happened in a post.
I would suggest to list the full urls of the duplicate targets when the dupe list is edited or ...
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Duplicate Question Close Reason No Longer Suggests an Edit
When a question was closed as a duplicate earlier today, I noticed that the close reason suggested that the user ask a new question:
This seems to be a change from an earlier message, which also ...
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Changing the duplicate message [duplicate]
Currently, the duplicate message looks something like this:
It says that the if the answers do not address your question you should ask a new one.
But you can edit it as well to put it in the reopen ...
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Is there a place to dispute duplicate markings? [duplicate]
My question was marked as a duplicate, and I have some issues to point out about it. I was wondering if there was a place to go to dispute the marking?
This would be really useful, as I am now losing ...
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Should/can we change the Duplicate notification?
Currently, the (top) duplicate notification says
This question already has an answer here:
and links to the "original" question. I find this, at least, misleading, considering we (at least in RPG.se)...
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Give askers a way to challenge a duplicate closure
When I read about Stack Overflow or the Stack Exchange network in various other places on the internet, a lot of it are complaints about the moderation. There is one specific complaint I see a lot, ...
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Duplicates on meta sites - sum the votes
Duplicates are there mostly to tell us that a question was already asked and, in some cases, it also has an answer and to link to this question.
While this is great for main sites, on meta it's a bit ...
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Dupe text should change to reflect that a question has multiple duplicates [duplicate]
The current text is:
This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question.
But in reality, it is an duplicate of multiple questions.
Should this copy be changed?
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Is asking a similar question but without irrelevant context OK?
I am wondering if it is alright to re-ask a question if you can only find context-specific questions that use methods that can solve your problem but is not your specific problem (probably most ...
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Aging Q&As and Fresh Questions [duplicate]
Here is the basic problem that I am running into over and over. I have a question that I would like to find an answer to on Stack Exchange. As I search I find a number of promising Q&As in the ...
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Question marked as duplicates should have links to the duplicates
So many times across the Stack Exchange sites do I come across the questions marked as duplicate. But I won't find the answers for the question because it is a duplicate of some question that I don't ...
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Make it simpler to flag duplicates
While browsing the man SO tag, I just found here that there are duplicates in top questions. The duplicate was found in 2011 and apparently wasn't taken care of, so I decided to report it again. I ...
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