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I don't think changing the message into a perspective "might be a duplicate, might provide an answer" - like message would make things clearer. Nor would it solve the issues you mention. A question is …

Short answer: I believe cross-dupes not only are acceptable, but a small overlap is even useful: If the scopes of the sites overlap, so should their content. While a minor overlap does no harm at all …

As always, there is no one-fits-all answer to the question. There are however some important general considerations to keep in mind to decide. Should we keep a separate question for each and every spe …

I am really not happy with the way questions are marked as duplicate lately. A few recent examples: This question could probably be closed for several reasons, but not for being a duplicate of the …

I completely understand what you mean. Like anything, it seems quite impossible to catch all possible situations in rules. On one hand it feels unfair to send someone, who posted as first, a message …

Marking/closing questions as a duplicate is a delicate subject, and there is a thin line between whether a post is a duplicate or not. This one however hurts my eyes. While OP clearly mentions he wan …

Just my opinion, and definitely not an absolute one. It depends on the age of the original question and how extensive the needed additional explanation is, but i'd say if the question is not "fresh" …

It is because the system detects the post was marked as dupe of a post by the same poster. He simply posted the same post again, in other wording. In such a case the post is a dupe, without a reason …

Not trying to start a dispute here, but I need clarity: I ran into this question: How to record bash terminal output without suppressing the terminal output?, in which OP asks how to save terminal ou …

I believe in the voting system, but not as a result of this: A while ago, this question was asked. In short, in a multi- monitor setup, OP wants to have new windows appear on the screen he is currentl …

I definitely would say the only criterion to mark as a duplicate is the question. There are many cases answers answer more than one question. For various reasons, that is irrelevant to the decision …

Mark's answer covers it. To elaborate a bit: what is seemingly the same question can be a totally different one; identical symptoms can be caused by different reasons. Unless one answer covers multipl …

To generalize: If the question has a bad title, edit it if a question's title is an obstacle to find the real content of it, I edit it into a more appropriate title. You can think of the following …

On the occasion of this question, about losing rep over deletion of this one Rubbish does not belong on the site. After a question has been marked as unclear, off-topic or too broad, one might cons …

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 …