Questions tagged [exact-duplicates]
Questions about finding duplicates, handling duplicate content, voting to close, et cetera
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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"One question to rule them all" questions on SuperUser
SuperUser is haunted by repeated questions on topics as:
Antivirus suggestions
Virus/Spyware removing
Best practices for troubleshooting common problems
Best buy guides for hardware and software
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Mysterious question migrated 12 times
I just navigated to SU and saw this:
The four five twelve questions are exactly the same; they have the same answers, comments and the same question, just different ID numbers.
I suppose this isn't ...
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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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See possible duplicates in question
When one opens a question and starts typing a title, a list of possible duplicate questions is shown as illustrated below.
I assume that this isn't used often since some quite obvious duplicates are ...
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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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'closed as exact duplicate' should show the EXACT duplicate
First of all, I know this has been discussed already, and I know that the duplicates are listed at the top of the newer question. However, there are still two issues with how this is handled.
First, ...
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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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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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 is the correct procedure to mark as a possible duplicate?
Is there some other method to mark questions as possible duplicates than casting a close vote (requiring 3k rep)?
When I see some obvious duplicates, should I add a comment or flag for moderator ...
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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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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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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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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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The "Possible Duplicate" link/auto-text should NOT be part of the question itself
When a question gets closed as a possible duplicate, Community ♦ edits the post to insert the "duplicate link":
That's great! We should be directing users to the "original" question. The problem ...
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Comanswer duplicates Superuser answers
I was just doing some Google searches to find out how to selectively always trust certain certificates on intranet pages using Google Chrome on a Mac. I came across this SuperUser answer. Another ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Why the differing statements when dealing with duplicates?
When closing a duplicate, a message pops up above the question saying
Possible duplicate: < link >
but underneath the post, it will say:
Closed as exact duplicate by: < list of users >
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Should you be able to close as duplicate from another SE site?
see the following link on SU
MS Outlook 2010 - Force Automatic Replies to all Email Senders
I can see the question and answer exist approptiately in both SU and SF sites. It could be an MS Exchange ...
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Editing and retagging to make a duplicate fit?
There's a question currently open, but with one vote to close as duplicate.
The open question is about fast user switching in Mac OS 10.6.4 (aka Snow Leopard).
The original question has an answer ...
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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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HTTPS links aren't accepted when proposing a duplicate
I'm using HTTPS Everywhere plugin which redirects me to HTTPS versions of websites if they are available. It works on SuperUser too, so all SU pages are loaded through HTTPS.
I have just tried to ...
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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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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
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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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"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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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 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
+16
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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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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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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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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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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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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