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When I try to vote to close this question as a duplicate, the site tells me it doesn't have an upvoted answer, but it does. Is this a bug?
See these two questions:
whenever I start my windows laptop, after laptop is opened terminal is automatically opened and inside terminal its written -, and
On windows startup terminal opens ...
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I have flagged a question as a duplicate. The flag was marked as "helpful". But the question still hasn't closed
Yesterday (6/9/21), a question was asked: How to remove the new weather info from the taskbar?.
I have flagged this question as an exact duplicate of: How can I disable the “News and Interests” Widget ...
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How to search for duplicates efficiently?
In my experience the search box in Close as duplicate dialog is almost useless.
For example we have a canonical malware removal question. Its score is 454 as I'm writing this. It has over a dozen ...
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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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Is a duplicate question closed?
I'm struggling with a help center topic "duplicates". If a question is marked as "duplicate" (by user votes) is it already closed as well?
If not, and the close process still has to be initialized, ...
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Duplicate that isn't a duplicate
My question here has been flagged as a duplicate when it's clear, at least to me, that it's worlds apart in both scope and relevance to the question that it's meant to be a duplicate of.
Not only is ...
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How are there two *exact* duplicate questions? (Title, answers, author, date, comments, migration)
While viewing related questions on Meta Super User, I noticed two questions with the same title.
Initially I assumed this was a strange coincidence or a bug in the system. But then I realized the two ...
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Duplicate post has been deleted
The post Install programs from command line on windows has been closed and marked as a dupe. If you click on the dupe you'll see the post has been deleted.
Not sure if you'd consider it a bug, but ...
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Is there a way to 'un-duplicate'?
There is a question on superuser that i would like to have the answer to (i have a similar problem: How to stitch planar images?). but the question is marked as duplicate by 5 users. i don't find the ...
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Why does the Community user mark questions as duplicates?
I recently came across this question which has been marked as a duplicate. What's strange is that this question has been marked as a duplicate by the Community user:
How can Community mark a question ...
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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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Duplicate questions of very old posts
I was about to post a question on Superuser, when I found that there was a duplicate of exactly the question I wanted to ask, only it was asked 3 and half years ago with no good answer.
Is it OK for ...
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"Adding folders" marked as a duplicate of "Adding item" to Explorer sidebar
I recently asked this question, How to add Google Drive to the Windows Explorer Sidebar and it was marked as a duplicate before anyone who could answer it saw it.
My question was not answered by the ...
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How to explain this is not duplicate question?
If my question is marked as duplicate, then how could I explain that my question is different by the previous one? And lift the duplicate market?
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Are you allowed to ask follow-up questions or duplicate questions if there were no satisfactory answers?
Are things like follow-up questions or duplicate questions if there were no satisfactory answers, permissible on this site?
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Can questions be duplicate if the duplicate is on non Stack Exchange site?
There are many sites that emulate the Stack Exchange look and feel, but aren't actually part of the network.
One such site is ask.puppetlabs.com
To qualify as a duplicate, do both questions need to ...
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My question has been mistakenly marked duplicate
My question here - https://superuser.com/questions/725545/ - has been marked duplicate to this question - Does installing many programs really slow down Windows?.
To those who say its duplicate, the ...
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Merge most of the IDE-to-AHCI questions
As it stands, we have at least six questions dealing with enabling AHCI support on an IDE mode Windows installation:
How to get AHCI support on an IDE Windows 7 installation? (~150 views, asked July ...
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What to do with intentional duplicate questions on separate SE sites
The following questions:
https://superuser.com/questions/651439/frequent-wifi-disconnects-with-my-wifi-router
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/54090/frequent-wifi-disconnects-with-my-wifi-...
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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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$RECYCLE.BIN question that is not a duplicate marked as a duplicate
Oliver Salzburg♦ marked my question...
How to delete $RECYCLE.BIN folder on external hard disk?
...as a duplicate of...
There is a “$REYCLE.BIN” folder in my external hard drive; can I delete ...
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Question closed as duplicate, but no dupe given
Windows 8 Login Screen shows two login tiles for same user account was closed as an exact duplicate, but no duplicate was given. Explain?
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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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Finding "Root" duplicates
Is there a way to find out what questions have many questions that are closed as duplicates of them (or duplicates of duplicates etc)?
It seems that these would be good ways of finding out what ...
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Undelete the List of free antivirus solutions for Windows
I went out to search for antivirus solutions, and quite a few questions are on super user for this. I believe a question like "what free antivirus solutions are there" is a valid question for this (...
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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How can I get an update on an old question?
How can I get an update on an old question? For instance, this one. I'd like to hope that there have been updates in the software available to someone with this question.
I guess my real question ...
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Merging answers of duplicate questions
I know that it says "its answers may be merged with another identical question" for duplicate questions, but I have never seen it actually done.
Is there a chance that this could happen for my answer ...
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How does one appeal a close decision due to supposed question duplicate?
How do I 'share' a folder to the public in dropbox?
This isn't my question and I fully agree that my answer isn't the best one, but it is very clear to me that @Sathya is incorrect in his ...
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Please don't be so trigger happy about closing questions
The ability to close questions as duplicates is great when used properly. However, I believe the community got a tad trigger happy with my question:
My question: How to (re)enable the “New” context ...
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How to deal with a cross-posted question which belongs to SU ?
Some days ago, I posted this question.
This is a cross-post from Ubuntu SE. The question has also been answered.
I now know that cross-posting is discouraged. However, I think it belongs here. IMO, ...
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Quick way to find questions nominated for closing?
Is there a fast way for someone with 3k+ rep to find questions nominated for closing?
If there's not, can we make one? I think this would prevent a lot of redundant effort, i.e. 5 different highish ...
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