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How to handle my cross-site duplicate?
Today, I asked this question, which seems to be a cross-duplicate of another question.
The question itself is about usage of computer programs, so it does not belong on StackOverflow, but here on ...
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Multiple questions on erasing data. Are they duplicates?
I was reviewing the question here: How to Erase All Data on Compaq Laptop and I found two candidates for closing as a duplicate of.
Securely erasing all data from a hard drive
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Erase disk before ...
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What should I do with a duplicate for which the flag aged away? Should the other question then become the duplicate?
I marked:
Disk usage at 100% during startup
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Asked 10 months ago
Modified 10 months ago
Viewed 14k times
6 answers: +23, +11, +9, +3, +2, +1
as a duplicate of:
Disk usage is always at 100%
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How is this a duplicate?
How to restore data after accidentally starting DD on a hard drive but stopping it before it went too far?
Let's look at answers in the supposed duplicate:
Click here in case you suspect corruption ...
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My question was marked as duplicate but it's really not
I recently asked this question about a strange behaviour my computer was having. It had recorded keystrokes I've made one month ago, leading to think about a possible malware/keylogger infection.
It ...
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Swap the duplicates (the general question is closed, the vista-specific one is open)
Following the answer of How to suggest to change "X is a duplicate of Y" to "Y is a duplicate of X"?, I'm posting my question here:
How do I full-screen my CMD? is marked as a ...
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A better way to find duplicates?
This is something that has been bugging me for a while.
It is not uncommon for the same question to be asked repeatedly. Take this question that was asked today. This question, in one form or ...
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Closing a question as a duplicate (followup)
This is a followup on my previous meta question.
This (my) question has been marked as a duplicate and closed: "This question has been asked before and already has an answer." And of course, a ...
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Should my question be a duplicate?
I asked this question about network shares becoming inaccessible on my Windows computer. It was closed as a duplicate of this question.
I'm not convinced mine should be closed as a duplicate of the ...
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Incorrect duplicate
Yesterday I asked this question about a flash drive. Today, I came back to look for answers and found that it had been marked as a duplicate. I was excited to learn that my question had already been ...
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Removing ALL similar answers instead of removing duplicates?
I was looking for an answer to the question How do I copy/paste into VirtualBox? I found two such questions here but none contained the answer that I need. After I figured out the answer myself I ...
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Choosing a canonical question for "Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?"
Super User has several questions asking how to check whether they have a 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System, and how to check if their CPU is 64-bit capable.
The majority combine both questions into ...
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Duplicate question, but different?
Inspired by this question
Already read this meta question for duplicate with different environment, and I can see the question should be left open because it is a Windows 8, not Windows 7.
However, ...
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What to do with same answers to different questions by the same user?
Not sure if this has already been discussed here, so here it goes. Often, when reviewing the Late Answers queue, I run into some answers that seem to be posted many times by the same user
I ...
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Chrome 'backspace key navigation re-enable' question dupe closure should probably be the other way around
How can I re-enable backspace navigation in Chrome? (2016-06-04, 6006+ views) is currently closed as a duplicate of Re-enabling backspace as "go back" in recent Chrome (2016-08-09, 630+ ...
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which question is the duplicate?
Where is the Ubuntu console on Windows10?
How do I install Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10?
The first has about 6 times the number of upvotes (for the question and accepted answer)... so 66 total ...
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Should we be copying other Stack Exchange sites Q&As so we can create "canonical" Q&As here?
Due to our broad scope we often have overlap with other sites on the network, in some cases it could be seen as useful to be able to close questions as duplicates of those on another site. This will ...
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Same answer from different users on different questions
There are almost duplicate questions, and not very surprisingly they have similar answers. But one answer is an exact copy, though posted from a different account. The newer version is slightly more ...
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Closed question information blurb seems -- wrong/confusing?
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
This seems to suggest that duplicate questions are fine ...
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?
This question is flagged as a duplicate of this question. However, that 2nd question is also flagged as a duplicate of the first.
How do I bring this to the proper individuals' attention?
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community-faq is a useless meta tag primarily serving the older users
There should be no reason to have and maintain community-faq as a living tag. Certainly not to continue pasting a boilerplate into questions themselves explaining the tag's usage.
Yes, it spawned out ...
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Help us close duplicates of two new Community FAQ questions
I've recently added two questions to the Community FAQ because they were found to have many duplicates:
USB flash drive not working or is appearing as an empty disk drive, Disk Management reports &...
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Can we convert older (question body format) duplicate notices to the new, not editable duplicate format?
Duplicates used to be handled by the system putting some markup in the question body, like so:
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> [Title of the Duplicate Question](http://superuser.com/)
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Does question age trump answer quality when it comes to duplication? [duplicate]
As part of a bigger cleanup of the Logitech tag I stumbled across these two questions:
Is there a 64-bit Windows 7 driver for a Logitech Wingman Formula Force wheel?
asked: 4 years ago
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Question marked as duplicate
I asked two questions.
Is there a way to assign keys in the command pallet list to jump to desired item instead of the default item in sublime text?
How to find out which command corrosponds to which ...
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Are link-only answers fine if they link to Super User questions?
Let's say someone asks a question: How do I upgrade a widget for defrobulator?. There are many possible answers, each one correct and the question isn't too broad. (And defrobulator in this case is a ...
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Should we reopen #693440 and #617327?
This is not a reopen request, I want to discuss my view on those duplicates.
Why does an exe file not appear as ones and zeros in a text editor such as Notepad? is a theoretical question. OP doesn't ...
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What should you do when your question has already been asked, but none of the answers work? [duplicate]
What should you do if your question has already been asked, and you've tried all of the answers but they either didn't work, or wouldn't be acceptable solutions in your situation? Should you:
Open a ...
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Should older questions be flagged as duplicates of more recent ones if those have better answers?
For example, How to access the system tray using the keyboard? has been flagged as a duplicate of How to access (or switch between) tray icons with shortcut in windows?. The former one has been asked ...
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How to deal with reoccuring specific questions not being useful to others
Some questions like "Dualboot some GNU/Linux distribution (mostly Ubuntu) with Windows 7/8" are being asked more than five times a day and are broad in their nature, so I start to think about marking ...
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How exactly are we supposed to treat duplicates of questions that have no upvoted/accepted answers?
I flagged a question as a dupe of another one. Why, when I could simply VTC? Obviously because I'm compelled to do so due to the stupid changes to "close as duplicate" (which predictably have lead to ...
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How do we approach closing dupes of dupes?
Every so often, as I'm going through the review queue, I notice that there are close votes to question as duplicates of other questions which are already closed as a duplicated. I remember one time ...
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When is a duplicate question not a duplicate?
Awhile back someone asked this question about losing properties when copying files. User Diamond made a guess at what the issue was and his answer was accepted. I recently ran into what looked a ...
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Creating sign-post questions
I came across a problem I couldn't quickly solve myself (stress related, my search skills were turned off). I copy and pasted the message into the Search bar of SU, and could not find any results in ...
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Question closed as dupe is not a dupe
The question Google Chrome pinned to Windows 7 taskbar not opening under pinned icon was closed on Sept 3 as being a duplicate of Some taskbar pinned icons are duplicated when an instance of the ...
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Should I add "Possible duplicate" text to a question which is not closed as duplicate (yet)?
Can I add "Possible duplicate" text to a question which is not closed as duplicate (yet), or should I wait until it's closed and then edit it?
Also, what happens if I add links to possible duplicates ...
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Questions closed as duplicates of questions that are different
Why was this closed? It was closed as a duplicate, yet that other question is not a duplicate of it. It seems to me that people just quickly skimmed the question, and without paying too much attention ...
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Asking the same as existing question, but for a different platform/OS [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
Sometimes there's an existing question on a topic you want answers to, but the ...
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What is the policy on duplicate answers?
In the question
how do I echo $something >> file.txt without carriage return?
which was asked and answered about a month ago, a new answer has been submitted which is essentially a duplicate (...
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Do I flag or comment possible duplicates?
I've noticed a lot of people commenting when they see possible duplicates. Should I do that in addition to flagging or instead of it?
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Question closed as duplicate of deleted question
This question has been closed as an exact duplicated of this question. However, the latter question has been "deleted for purposes of moderation."
Shouldn't the first question be deleted too?
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A lot of "no such partition" questions, how do we clean them up?
See this Google Search for "no such partition" on Super User: 2700 (224 according to the last page).
Without tag pages: 556 (206 according to the last page)
Without tag pages and close votes: 551 (...
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Similar Tor-related question for Linux and Mac OS X
I was going through tor to see what I could see, and I came across and answered this question which asks about Mac OS X:
How do I tell tor, from the command-line, to give me a new identity
Further ...
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Merge questions about Windows symlinks
The best answer IMO is grawity's bold headings: https://superuser.com/a/347946/24500
What is the difference between NTFS hard links and directory junctions?
Windows 7: hard link, symbolic link and ...
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Duplicate Question, where the answer is the same, but the question differs slightly
This question:
Can any of the diff/grep utilities do a "file grep"?
Was voted for close as an exact duplicate of
Which duplicate files and folders finders exist for Windows?
The OP ...
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Different versions of an OS = different quesitons?
If someone asks a question relating to Windows Vista... Would relatively the same question (wanting to know how to accomplish a task) be considered a duplicate if tied to Windows 7?
If not, Would ...
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How to ask a question which is similar to other questions but not exactly similar
I find many questions which are similar to my question but not exactly what i want to ask. Some people feel it duplicate so they vote down or sometimes it leads closing a question.
I can edit a ...
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How can we take care of our old duplicates?
What's going on …
There is a trend that is very easy to explain.
A question is asked.
It gets a few answers, and because it's the first of its kind (i.e. topic-wise), it receives a lot of popularity
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What's the Super User community policy on duplicates
I have a similar freezing problem as described by Arthur Skirvin, though my hardware configuration is different and freezing symptoms vary slightly. Hence my post here on meta. I do not frequently ...
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on superuser, and found 103 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
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