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duplicate" comment the same length, while providing more information to people who don't quite know how to use the site yet, would be to linkify the word duplicate to point to a help page explaining how duplicates …

Yes, you're right that your question wasn't a duplicate of the linked question, because you already enabled the repositories that provide "ddeb" debug symbol packages (the -dbgsym packages), and both …

Answers can only be posted on questions before they have been closed as duplicates. Someone asserting a question is a duplicate doesn't constitute community consensus. …

It seems like what you really want is to move some of your unanswered questions from here to Unix.SE. If that's the case, why not just delete those particular questions of yours here, and then post t …

It's true that sometimes questions are incorrectly closed as duplicates of the canonical black screen question. However, as far as I have seen, most such closures are correct. …

Strictly speaking the topics are a bit different--one is about deleting duplicates and the other is about moving them. But in effect they are presenting the same kind of information. …

You're right. As the first close voter, I will say, it was a mistake for me to have voted to close this. I've voted to reopen it. I do recommend the question be changed somewhat to clarify what it is …

And if people all choose duplicate but specify different duplicates, that closes it just as easily as if everyone gave the same duplicate. …

The simplest way I can think of, that I think would work well, would be to have a badge (or multiple badges) for voting to close some number of questions N that were: each subsequently closed as duplicates …

Tags do everything subsections would do, and can also overlap each other (in that a question may have more than one tag). You can simply browse the questions in a particular tag. It's unclear to me wh …

I'm another one of the close voters. I saw it as two questions, where the first question was a duplicate, and where the second question would clearly be separate given the answers to the first. Howev …

If the questions are already closed, so it's necessary to go through multiple levels of duplicates: A [duplicate] -> B [duplicate] -> C [duplicate] -> D [duplicate] -> E (master) Then: The most … In other words, questions are never closed as duplicates in a cycle that loops back on itself. There is always some master question. …

This appears to be resolved, at least for now. The question has been reopened. It appears there was a little bit of opposition to reopening it (judging from the reopen review queue history), but nobod …

I agree with Pilot6. While reviewing, and also while noticing deleted posts on questions I browse outside of review, I see numerous "me too" posts where someone is really trying to add new information …

This question is a verbatim duplicate of that question. They had the same title and body (until one of them was edited), are by the same author, and appear to have been posted within the same second, …