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Is it common for duplicate questions to get downvotes on meta?
I have a question on meta (that was migrated from the main Q&A). Originally, the question got a score of 4. Then it was closed as a duplicate, and shortly, it had a score of -4, and the question ...
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Can we slow down on the deletes on Meta, folks?
I had the privilege of reading this meta post just now (screenshot in case it's deleted again).
It was created 36 minutes ago.
It was closed 20 minutes ago.
It was deleted 1 minute ago.
Meta is the ...
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Why don't duplicate targets on meta need to have answers? [duplicate]
Recently this question How are one liners not blocked before being asked?, was asked and closed as a duplicate of Does the quality filter work?. The question is indeed a duplicate, but the interesting ...
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Is a meta question about a specific duplicate question a duplicate? [duplicate]
The comment on What can I do if I believe that my question was wrongly marked as a duplicate? encourages starting a discussion on Meta about a specific duplicate question.
However I have noticed ...
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Why do we close review audit disputes as duplicates?
The question I do not understand why I failed this audit has quite a few "duplicates". I sampled a few of them (aka the first few because I am a lazybones), and… I don't think they're duplicates. ...
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Are duplicate questions deleted quickly on [meta]?
This question was recently asked. It was marked as a duplicate and down-voted. But now it has been deleted "for reasons of moderation."
Are duplicate questions deleted quickly on meta?
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Is this a fair use for "duplicate"?
I have recently asked this question about what should be the action regarding the misusage of the ibm tag. After ongoing discussions, Floern writes an answer that as a response to my question he asked ...
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Are we dupevoting meta questions about post bans too quickly?
I have been around Meta.SO for a while and one of the things that I have noticed is that the community is very quick to dupevote questions about getting out of post bans (question bans and answer bans)...
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Questions in Meta should not be closed as duplicates when they ask about specific Stack Overflow questions
I have posted a couple of questions recently about specific Stack Overflow questions. My questions were closed as duplicates (though I did achieve my goal in each case).
So the question is ...
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How is my meta question from a year ago a duplicate of something asked two days ago? [duplicate]
So maybe I just don't understand how duplicates work. I had a meta question which I asked a year ago. It was recently marked as a duplicate of this question, which was asked 2 days ago.
I'm not ...
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Is it appropriate to close questions on Meta in which users ask why their question is marked as duplicate?
As I see, it is quite frequent to see some users asking a new question on Meta about why their question has been marked as duplicate (e.g., this and this), and most of them get closed as a duplicate ...
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What is the recommended course of action for cross-meta duplicates?
While browsing meta I've been seeing a lot of questions pop up here lately that have already been asked and answered on Meta Stack Exchange. Usually someone leaves a comment in the form of
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Closing feature requests as duplicates of general discussions
Given a general discussion about a problem, and a feature request proposing a solution to the problem, should the feature request be closed as a duplicate of the discussion?
There seems to be a common ...
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Marking disputed review audits as duplicates
Over the weekend, one user appears to have cast close votes on all of the open questions under the disputed-review-audits tag as duplicates.
I could see this action as being constructive if we are ...
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Is a question a duplicate if the duplicate has no answers?
I wrote this question a few minutes ago, and couldn't help noticing that it has a duplicate question.
However, the duplicate question does not have any answers, let alone any accepted answers. It is ...
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