Questions tagged [duplicate-questions]
Questions flagged as duplicate, and what are, or are not, good reasons to do so.
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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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What should we do when a question in another SO language-site has a duplicate on the main site?
For example, someone asks a question on https://es.stackoverflow.com/ that already has a duplicate on the main site, but the OP does not understand English.
What should we do here?
I think there some ...
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Someone else's question is incorrectly closed as a duplicate, but I don't have enough reputation to vote to reopen
I came across How to test private members and methods of classes? which is tagged c++. It was closed about 4 years ago as a duplicate of How do I test a class that has private methods, fields or inner ...
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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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When should one duplicate a question to "What is a debugger and how can it help me diagnose problems?"
I see questions like this one being marked duplicate of What is a debugger and how can it help me diagnose problems?. I get the sentiment.
But clearly, OP is not asking what a debugger is; they are ...
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How should a user without moderation privileges deal with self-duplicates?
In the last 4 or 5 days, I've come across three instances of different users who ask the same respective question twice or more.
Plot Empirical autocorrelation in one plot in R
Can I set the data ...
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Stop asking me to check existing questions if there are no relevant matches
Every time I ask a question, I have to click submit twice. First because I want to ask a question and then a second time because SO is spamming me with possible duplicate questions.
I never check for ...
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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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Is it a dupe if answers address the problem but not the code in question?
I recently voted to close this question as a dupe since it asks about the exact same goal as the dupe target. However, I was a bit in doubt about this situation because the asker may be interested in ...
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Is there a canonical question where asker doesn't know what a browser extension or userscript is, but is essentially asking how to make one?
I just came accross this: How to import javascript code into developer tools in browser? One time forever
And tried looking for something to mark is as a duplicate of.
I found this: How do I add a ...
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Can I ask a new question to ask whether an answer I gave is correct, targeting a knowledgeable audience via the language-lawyer tag?
I've recently gave an answer to a question about value cateogries in C++, and the author accepted it.
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure about the correctness (or at least thoroughness) of my answer, so ...
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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 this specific mysqli page be rehammered, merged, or something else?
Today I hammered closed a question where the requirements are the same as the target:
Is there a mysqli_fetch_all() equivalent to return an array of objects?
The new question was asked recently, while ...
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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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Why was my moderator flag to have a duplicate question closed/reopened declined?
I ran across a question that I believe is a duplicate (or was wrongly closed as a duplicate). I flagged it for moderator attention, but my flag was declined.
Why won't moderators do anything about ...