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A couple of questions regarding "Question closed as a duplicate"
I've asked this question in 2019: Assert request hasn't happened and then provided the answer by myself, thus answering my question.
Today I've found in my mailbox a couple of confusing emails ...
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What to do if I find a question for my problem, but I have different thing to say? Why is editing the old question bad? [duplicate]
The questions What should I do if there is a question already made for my problem but has never been answered? (duplicate) and What can you do when the question you want to ask is a duplicate? don't ...
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Questions and Articles are occasionally duplicated into two identical posts created in the same instant
I've noticed a number of incidences where a user posts the same question twice. However, these posts are created within the same second so this isn't a situation where a user keeps posting the same ...
Henry EckerMod
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What happens when the same user asks the same question twice?
So as a new user, I've posted an answer to this question, and later (a few minutes after) I found that the same user who asked the first question has asked another question and that question got a ...
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Is there a way exclude duplicates and closed questions in the question view?
On the c tag, there are more and more questions that are closed as duplicates or otherwise. I did not find a way to create a custom filter to remove these from the question view.
Did I miss something ...
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How should I correctly handle a question divided into several posts from the same user?
I found four questions, all posted by this user, which deal with the same topic, and with the same title. The first question differs from the others only for the wording "Part 2", "Part ...
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How can I improve questions marked as duplicate? [closed]
I am currently question banned, and thus are editing and revising all of my questions. But, a fair number of them are duplicates. How can I edit them to improve them and eventually relieve the ...
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How can I make sure the question I'm going to post is not going to be duplicate?
Background
I recently posted a question on the main site, and later pointed out by another user that the question has been answered, not once, but a couple times already. Soon, I found a working ...
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Is it possible to have an unanswered question re-opened, so I can answer it? [closed]
This question was closed because it was marked as a duplicate of similar questions. However, I don't feel that it actually was a duplicate. This author was specifically asking about using precise RBG ...
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Should I really ask the same question again if the old one was closed as a duplicate?
The duplicate banner tells me:
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If this question doesn’t resolve your question, ask a new one.
Should I keep reposting my question until I ...
DharmanMod
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Canonical question for issues relating to upgrading to Discord.js v12
There are a lot of questions relating to results from upgrading to Discord.js v12, most commonly dealing with the addition of managers and having to use .cache:
discord.js V12 'filter' undefined
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Should I close my own question as a duplicate after upvoted and accepted answer(s)?
I've recently asked a question regarding Java. Although I didn't understand the actual problem, another user added an answer pointing towards a question that described and answered the exact problem I ...
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The SQL NULL is extremely difficult to ask about - can we make it easier?
I searched for hours for questions about the SQL NULL and properly comparing maybe-null with maybe-null (column with query parameter). but once I asked about it the answer came pretty quick.
the SQL ...
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Do we need a canonical for Python ModuleNotFoundErrors?
Lately I've noticed that we've got a lot of python questions about ModuleNotFoundErrors. As in, 3330 questions a lot.
Most of these questions seem to have the root cause of the module not being ...
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Are these duplicates?
Are
What is "charAt(i) - 'a'" means in Trie structure?
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Java: Subtract '0' from char to get an int... why does this work?
duplicates?
I did not manage to find the ...
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'This is not a duplicate of this question because the accepted answer is wrong'
I am referring to this specific question, particularly the last line that the author wrote:
This is not a duplicate of this question because the accepted answer is wrong.
I am puzzled.
I can't ...
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Can I ask about an extended solution of another question?
I'm quite new to the Stack Exchange environment, but I would like to grow to be a helpful and positive contributor.
This solution is one I'd like implemented on higher dimensions, as the ...
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Problem asking/searching questions
I have been on Stack Overflow for a while, and I always search for the question I have before asking it. However, sometimes I don't find it, I ask it, and it results in a downvoted question because it'...
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How do I close a question as a duplicate of more than one question?
Sometimes I'll find two questions that could be duplicates of the OP's question, and I don't know how to vote the question as a duplicate of both the other ones.
I've tried to separate them by comma ...
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How do you best research your question before asking it on SO? [duplicate]
I've been wondering if there are some research tips before asking something on SO. I know this questions seems dumb but think about it. How do people get to know an answer by researching and the ...
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Can/should I copy my answers between SO/SE sites?
Should I copy my own answers to duplicate/similar questions between different Stack Exchange sites?
I've encountered the following situation today when a user asked a question on the reverse ...
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Should we remove the "duplicate question" flag on this question?
Question under consideration: How to debug obfuscated JavaScript?
This question is marked as a duplicate of an earlier question (How do you debug through a compressed javascript file?). However, the ...
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Second guessing my closure of this question
Background:
A user posts a question in the R tag. A few minutes later, the user posts the same question, but this time asks it under the pandas tag.
I noticed the connection, and pointed this out. ...
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Why is this old question a duplicate of a newer one? [duplicate]
This question was posted in 2009:
What is the best way to submit disabled inputs as part of a JQuery AJAX request?
And was marked in 2016 as a duplicate of another posted in 2011:
How to make $....
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Streamline the process for authors to close their own questions as duplicates
I posted a question today, attempting to get help debugging a problem for which the root cause wasn't clear. A few hours of debugging later, I found the root cause, which turned out to be something ...
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Should I ask a new question about the same error in different context?
I have the same error as described in a relatively old, but not answered question: Spyder's Warning: "Session/line number not unique in database"
While the context of the error is ...
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How to answer a question that has been asked multiple times?
In searching for an answer to a PHP/PDO problem I have encountered, I discovered 2 questions that are very similar in nature (here and here) (there are other similar ones as well). Both of these ...
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Close as duplicate one old question of another old (too broad) question without upvoted / accepted answer
Today an old question was bumped to the front page due to an answer posted into it. Basically a link only answer to another answer the same user made on another question (which presents the same error ...
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When the "Best Answer" is not always the "Right Answer"
I have recently joined SO, interested in Python, pandas, and NumPy, and have noticed a tendency for questioners to favour, and often explicitly request the following:
"One-line" answer
"Most efficent"...
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Reposting an interesting but crappy question as one's own
I recently came across this question which was interesting¹ but pretty poorly presented. If you take a look, make sure to view the original rather than the one that has benefited from at least one non-...
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