Timeline for Can we have Pro-Forma Comments for Frequently Asked Duplicate Questions?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 27, 2013 at 6:51 | comment | added | Aditya |
@JorgeCastro: I wasn't flagging properly.. In order to flag a question as Duplicate, I was always flagging it as Other for Mod Attention option. Instead, I should be flagging using the option it doesn't belong here, or its a duplicate... This always increased the workflow for me... However, I still feel something like canned comments for Dupes would help us... No problem if the community feels it wouldn't be a good add-on; I would try to find a workaround for it... I have started making a text document to create a master of dupes.
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| Jan 26, 2013 at 17:00 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @JorgeCastro No, the same question closing interface we have, low rep users have. I have < 200 rep on Stack Overflow. Flag, click It doesn't belong here, or it is a duplicate, and then it's the same exact interface we use for close-voting, just "inform moderator flags" instead of "votes." Same menus, same close suggestions. (You can try this on any of the several SE sites where you have <3k rep.) It is true, though, that the close review queue, and the 10k information on closing/closed questions, and the 10k flag queue that gets some close flags (cast as described above) require high rep. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 16:29 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | I see the problem, he doesn't have 3k reputation, so he has to do all the voting to close and stuff by hand since he doesn't have access to any of the closing tools. | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 13:13 | comment | added | Aditya |
Ah thanks... all this while I have always flagged a duplicate as Other for Moderator Attention... My bad that I didn't notice this stuff... Thanks.. from now onwards would flag a duplicate properly.... But I still feel the need for such (proposed) tool ;)
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| Jan 26, 2013 at 0:18 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Aditya This is not probably not related to reputation. Sometimes the system doesn't find anything it thinks you're likely to want to indicate as the master when closing as a duplicate. Then the list is empty. (I've edited to clarify, as my post was not clear on this.) | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 0:14 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
qualified the "anyone" claim which was intended to say that moderators and Stack Exchange employees don't need to be asked or otherwise consulted for the feature to be implemented; added information about when the suggestion list does not appear
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:37 | comment | added | Aditya | As a user with not enough reputation - I don't see that list of Duplicates (as in your image). Probably I will when I would be eligible to cast Vote To Close. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:29 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Aditya Yes, I still disagree. I've expanded my answer to explain how this situation is fundamentally different from pro-forma comments as applied to NAA answers. As for what alternatives I would suggest--I would suggest the alternatives I talked about in my answer, plus the two excellent alternatives Jorge Castro talked about in his answer. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:28 | history | edited | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
expanded to explain the difference between this situation and situations where pro forma comments are posted on answers
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:26 | comment | added | Aditya | BTW, the feature is proposed for generic questions - obviously not for ones for which we need to ask the OP to give outputs of some terminal commands. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:21 | comment | added | Aditya |
Having comments readily available at our disposal would obviously help in raising a Flag/VTC - similar to how we comment when someone has just posted a link as an answer. We should use the proposed feature for questions like unmet dependency, 404 error using a ppa, upgrading from unsupported release, installing ubuntu on preinstalled win8 system; and such. Do you still disagree? Or what are the alternatives that you would suggest? Would you still compare questions like Nothing shows up in the terminal when I type my password? :)
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| Jan 25, 2013 at 23:02 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |