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Adding additional targets on a duplicate is impossible on iPhone [duplicate]
The dialog box for adding more URLs to the list of originals on a duplicate Question is much too wide on an iPhone. It is physically impossible to complete that dialog box.
Pasting the URL of an ...
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Rule proposal: Duplicate closure to roll-up questions is no longer allowed
There is a long-festering problem in some tags where some questions are closed by dupehammers, using a single roll-up question as the duplicate target. A "roll-up" question is defined here ...
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Are multiple close reasons provided if a question was single-handedly closed?
I came across the following post and revisions:
command won't add roles to the user
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/77107942/revisions
It was closed by two users, one with the ability to single-...
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Canonical question for new questions about importing data from Yahoo Finance into Google Sheets
Follow-up of
Canonical question for importing content from dynamic websites using IMPORTHTML / IMPORTXML Google Sheets functions
Recently I have found that many "bad" questions about ...
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Is it abuse to answer then dupe-hammer a question? [duplicate]
I recently came across this answer in the Reopen Queue. A gold badge holder answered the question (which went on to be accepted and gain a lot of upvotes), then exactly one minute later dupe-hammered ...
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How can I show all the questions I closed as duplicate?
I hold the gold badge of pandas. I can flag a post with this tag as a duplicate and close it immediately. Is there any way to view all of them?
I checked the All actions page where I found lists of my ...
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How can we prevent "close/opening wars" between gold tag badge holders around possible duplicates with only-code-no-explanation answers?
I have seen many cases of questions closed as duplicate by a gold tag badge holder that later are reopened by other tag badge holders that have answered those questions with code-only-no-explanation-...
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Gold tag badge holder closed a question as a duplicate, community voted to reopen, but then closed again for the same reason?
Years ago, I asked a question that is now probably one of the top search engine results if you search for anything related to pointer size in C++. It's a 10 year old question which still gets ...
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Etiquette on tag-change + close, based on a different question, with a similar explanation/answer
So 13 months ago I was tripping over escaping a string just right to get a regex working. The question was posted, and I got an answer which helped me figure out what I did wrong. SO FTW.
Fast-forward ...
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`Check if a string is a date value` is a duplicate of `Detecting an "invalid date" Date instance in JavaScript`
Check if a string is a date value is a duplicate of Detecting an "invalid date" Date instance in JavaScript.
This comment states so and 6 users (including me) agree.
My flag was declined by ...
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Let's make it okay to answer THEN mark a question as a duplicate without closing the page. Let me explain how/why
This is not a rhetorical rant, this is an earnest scream for reform.
Sorry, I tried to make this as short as possible, but it is kind of a complex change that I am suggesting. I probably left out ...
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Should this question be closed as a duplicate and how to give it an answer for future viewers?
I recently asked this question on SO, which was closed as a duplicate of another question. In the process of trying to explain and come up with reasoning as for why it's not a duplicate, I managed to ...
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Gold badge reopening a duplicate that I believe shouldn't be reopened [duplicate]
I asked Should these two questions (one duplicate of the other) be inverted? last summer.
Tl;DR: 2 questions, A duplicate of B, but A has way more vote/view than B. Answer from moderator: duplicate ...
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Duplicates suggested by mere mortals no longer included in Mjölnir-dupevote?
Scenario:
A question is asked that has multiple duplicates
Some "mere mortal" (A) (i.e. a user not having a gold tag badge for any of the tags on the question) finds one duplicate question URL (1) ...
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What should I do about wrong duplicate targets used by gold-badge holders?
In PHP we have two canonicals. One is for mysql_* API and the other is for mysqli API.
Some gold-badge holders hammer a question using mysqli code with the wrong duplicate. Sometimes another person ...
DharmanMod
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