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Nullify reputation earned from votes on answers while their question is closed as a duplicate [duplicate]
Answering duplicate questions has been an ongoing controversy on meta, and I've found that the central divisions over previous suggestions often boil down to the following points:
Discouraging ...
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It's time to reward the duplicate finders
Stack Overflow sees many questions asked repeatedly, despite the large quantity of existing content. This is not always due to lack of effort - familiarity with the relevant keywords to use in the ...
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People MUST be rewarded with reputation for finding duplicates
And the reputation gained should count towards their ability to close the questions themselves single-handedly. Otherwise this site will continue to be the endless stream of extremely low quality ...
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How to be a fair duplicate close voter [duplicate]
Note: I don't want to talk about specific-question; I'm describing it only as an example. My question is general.
I just saw a question which is a duplicate, found a good duplicate target, and voted ...
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How do I reward someone that answered my question, if he answered it indirectly
I have asked a question, that I closed as a duplicate, one of those answers helped me a lot. And I don't think there should be to many "almost the same" questions out there.
How do I show my ...
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Flagging a post as a duplicate should cost reputation points
As of now one of the ways to perform a point-free aggressive action against a poster is to flag the post as a duplicate leaving one more avenue that opens the system to abuse. There should be a speed-...
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Is there a way to know if my question and answer is flagged when I have low reputation?
Sometimes my questions and answers are flagged by other users that it is duplicate or not useful, even if it's not real duplicate.
If I see that my question or answer is flagged, I can change it in ...
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Reputation for accepted duplicate close vote [duplicate]
To encourage people close duplicate questions, I think it should be rewarded with reputation.
For many repeating trivia questions, answering them is usually easier then searching for a good duplicate ...
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Easy way to mark a question as duplicate and stopping reputation gain on such question
Some background
Recently I came across a question on SO which was very simple. Looking at the question my impression was that the question would be from a newbie in programming. But when I looked at ...
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Is it better to flag or delete my own question if it is a duplicate? [duplicate]
I created: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37822849/how-can-you-a-prove-jvms-environment-is-too-slow-to-run-it-adequately
I feel it is a duplicate of: JVM benchmarking application
I would rather ...
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Most questions have already been asked, can't think of anything new to ask [duplicate]
This is kind of related to the Fastest Gun in the West problem, except it's for questions instead of answers.
Many of the most common programming questions have already been asked and answered:
Why ...
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Should one downvote a question marked as duplicate? [duplicate]
I had asked a question which was promptly marked as duplicate as it had been asked and answered earlier. I thanked the one who directed me to the answer because I had genuinely asked this question. ...
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Why do answers on clearly duplicate questions get up voted even when they are posted after the first “close as duplicate” vote
This question "Using LINQ as foreach replacement", is clearly a duplicate and I found the duplicate just by putting “LINQ foreach” into Google.
Yet it has two answers both posted after I voted to ...
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Remove the incentive for FGITW to answer well known dupes
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Where a dupe target has n number of duplicates closed against it, if future questions closed to that dupe target are answered, all the rep for those answers is nullified. This way, there is no ...
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What should I do when I find duplicates, but have <50 reputation points?
I was just looking for the answer to a random error I was getting from a program, and the first question I found was marked (correctly) as a duplicate of a much older post with a great, still relevant,...
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