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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. …

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? …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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. …

When a question is cross-posted here and another Stack Exchange site, and it gets good, valuable answers on both sites, is it appropriate to flag one of them for migration so it can then be duped and …

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 …