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Is it reasonable for dupes to appear before the non-dupe in search results? [duplicate]
If you search Stack Overflow for [c++] static block, you get this (as of 2021-11-08):
Q: What is static block in c or c++? [duplicate]
Q: Static blocks in C++ [duplicate]
Q: What's the C++ idiom ...
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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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Is it okay to ask intentionally dupe questions to help to find a real one? [duplicate]
Imagine a situation, that I've once read a question (and its answers) on a site. I would need the information again, so I try to find the question as I can (mainly, asking the search bar of the SE, ...
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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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Why are we not doing more to encourage duplicate question closures?
We have some feature requests.
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions - 4 years 6 months open
Help us find duplicates efficiently - 1 month open
Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +...
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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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Begin focusing more on searching than asking
Just a thought. I have noticed that many, many more questions are getting duplicated on SO.
This may be partly due to availability of searching within SO. I know SO questions appear frequently in ...
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Is there a way of identifying all posts related to each through a duplicate reference?
Of all the challenges of making SO effective, the challenge of handling duplicates seems to me to be among the most difficult and most important. We seem to be torn between wanting to retain if not ...
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Why do so many of my carefully researched MSO questions turn out to be duplicates?
I seem to have a hard time finding good answers for my meta questions. I usually have an issue I'm curious about on SO, so I search MSO using appropriate keywords to see if there are any similar ...
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Question closed as duplicate could not be found by the OP
Today I answered this question on StackOverflow.
The OP was asking what was wrong with his piece of code, and the answer was that he was missing the template keyword. The OP was likely unaware of ...
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How to prevent an endless deluge of questions about “that” and “which”
I know we have already asked about this problem twice, but English.SE has now had its third question about the difference between that and which (first, second). The “Ask Question” page is supposed to ...
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How do you find duplicates of questions? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are efficient ways to find duplicates on trilogy sites?
I asked the following question: Shouldn’t consecutive days measure from midnight to midnight in the user’s time ...
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Do we indirectly punish good citizens?
I always search SO hard before asking a question. And let's be honest, the site isn't necessarily optimized for search (answers tend to reuse question terminology, which often isn't the broadest ...
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How Could We Fix "The Ternary Operator Problem" [closed]
Well-intentioned people tend to ask the same question over and over again: What does this mean:
var foo = bar ? 1 : 0;
It's the thing which most people (notably: most people on SO) call "the ternary ...
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Close as duplicate, or leave it to assist others with weak search-fu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
duplicate question etiquette: to delete or not to delete?
I posted a question that I knew was a duplicate, because I was having no luck at all searching up the question that I ...
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