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Questions about finding duplicates, handling duplicate content, voting to close, et cetera

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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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Option to show possible duplicates in the review pane?

Anyone else thing that this would be a useful feature? Currently, when I look at a question, I use the script that can be found in the accepted answer here to do that. It works pretty well as a rule. …
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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 topic …
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Should duplicate answers posted within a short time frame be flagged?

Lets say there are two answers with the same content on the same question. Should the second one get flagged? This has happened to me, and I sent a flag. Want to know if it was the right thing to do. …
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