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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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Should we consider answers when closing questions as duplicates?
I stumbled upon the following question in the reopen queue:
Checking if a number is a prime number in Python
The question the user wants answered boils down to a trivial error in a while-loop (in a ...
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My question, which I was able to reopen myself after it was closed as a duplicate, is closed as a duplicate again, without context
I've posted a question which was was closed as a duplicate.
Believing it not to be a duplicate, I voted to reopen, which instantly reopened the question, because I do have a gold regex tag badge (I've ...
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Adding a threshold for closing/reopening duplicate question to limit "robo-reviewers"
We all know that there are a lot of users who blindly click on buttons inside the different queues in order to simply get higher stats and earn badges. We have some way to prevent this using audits ...
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legitimate reopening for a closed as duplicate question?
This question: write json float in scientific notation was closed as a duplicate of python: json.encoder.FLOAT_REPR changed but no effect
I have analysed the original question, and it is exactly the ...
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Could we please stop dupe-hammering this question?
This question has been dupe-hammered twice for two different answers, neither of which apply.
The original problem is someone is spawning some threads, spawning another thread, having the first few ...
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How can I avoid duplicating my own question?
Yeah, I know, it sounds crazy, but I get arm-twisted into duplicating my own question How to implement Master/Detail classes using Generics and inheritance. Now I try to find help here how this can be ...
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False duplicate question, hard to see on first glance (title, tags)
This question about char arrays is a question that seems hard to distinguish from a former one about int arrays. Nevertheless it's not a duplicate. I think the duplicate mark was set prematurely.
I ...
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Do Votes timeout? How to effectively vote on old questions then?
Recently I stumpled across this question:
Difference between Thread.yield() and Thread.sleep()
The question is about Java as indicated in the tags and it also has Java based answers which make sense. ...
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Is there a penalty for wrongly marking a post as duplicate?
An incorrect duplicate tag on a post effectively discourages other members from reading it or responding to it. Until it gets reopened (I am guessing the time taken to do so is dependent on how long ...
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Cancel my vote-to-reopen a question flagged with a wrong duplicate?
I got 3000 reputation points today and with that, the new close and reopen privilege.
I just voted a question for reopen for the first time but now I'm almost sure I did it wrong.
My intention was ...
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How duplicate questions can be marked as not-duplicate, after editing to show the difference [duplicate]
I had asked a question on SO: Denying PHP Script To run within certain folder but still making it downloadable
at that time the question wasn't clear and was using different tags like: wamp,.htaccess ...
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Reopen question to give general answer (duped is too specific)
I recently asked a question about Python multiple inheritance which was duped to a more specific case. In my opinion, for the benefit of those who come after us, the question should be reopened and ...
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Can I really do anything with a question marked as duplicate?
The problem I have is users not taking the time to properly read a question and then posting another answer from somewhere else which doesn't really answer the question.
This is then marked as a ...
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