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Tagged with duplicates feature-request
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"Marked as duplicate" should include a link to the duplicate(s) and not just "Ask a new question"
At the top of the question, we have:
and at the bottom we have
Sometimes the question can be very long and these two boxes can be very far apart. If you come from somewhere else (for example, via ...
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Remove the impossibility to mark a bountied question as a dupe?
At the occasion of this question, but there are many, many more examples where I notice a question which is bountied, but still a straightforward dupe. We then have to wait seven days to actually mark ...
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Add a feature for similarity comparison
It'd be nice if answers which are an exact copy of an existing (possibly upvoted) answer or contain large substring of such an answer and few own text - which should be a comment on the copied answer -...
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Does "on-hold" mean you can't flag as duplicate?
For some reason, this question doesn't have a flag "as duplicate" option:
How to run graphical app in background mode?
It has been put "on-hold" because the user was having a small problem with ...
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Search function and duplicate questions by new users
It's simple to notice that so many question asked by new users shall be answer by a simple search query. I'm asking if shall be possible put a simple banner saying:
"wait, before ask, why don't ...
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Linking Encouragement
This isn't really a question, but I'm not exactly sure where to put it. I would like to request stack exchange linking rewards.
Everyday many of the same questions are asked. Users that are ...
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Finding questions that other questions have been closed as a dupe of
Is there a way to find questions with a high closed as dupe points here count?
If there were, I think it would be a great way to get a list of questions for people with close-votes without as much ...
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Can we get an inbox message when a question we ask is marked as a duplicate?
I posted a question on askubuntu, unfortunately it was a duplicate of a previous question (I did search, sorry!). However, I came back a few times over the next few days to check the homepage to see ...
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How can I find out if my question has been asked before?
When I ask a question I do get a list of related questions that helps a lot to find out if my question has been asked before.
However I sometimes find an additional question that covers exactly the ...
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