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But on duplicates, the only information related to their closure that is hidden from the general public (which is also hidden for all other closed questions) is who voted to close them. … We keep many duplicates around, even when they have no answers, because they serve as signposts, guiding the way to their targets. …

We should have just one--others should be closed as duplicates. However, we don't seem to currently have any canonical or obviously best question for this. …

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, …

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 …

Finally, I wonder: Is this part of the help page just a holdover from back when we would close questions as duplicates of other unanswered questions? …

the question they refered to that I "copied" from as a duplicate is not even close to a duplicate When we close questions as duplicates, we don't actually mean the text of the question is the same … However, if you had only believed it to be wrongly closed because you thought duplicates were just for copied text, then that is a different matter. …

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 …

I'm not talking about exact copying, failure to give credit, or one person passing off another person's answer as their own. Rather, I'd like to know what the best practice is when one user answers a …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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

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 …

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. …