Answer by Simon Shine for We should be able to close questions as duplicates...
When we cannot pick an original to the duplicate with zero upvotes / acceptance, we cannot encourage re-use on low-activity tags where the majority of users are first-timers who neither upvote or mark...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Freidgeim for We should be able to close questions as...
There are 2 scenarios to see the message “This question does not have an upvoted or accepted answer” - when current question has a good answer, and both questions do not have good answers.For the first...
View ArticleAnswer by 3ventic for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
The two biggest problems I see with this change is thatit promotes asking an unanswered question and answering it yourself (rather than answering the old question, stealing the original askers rep)...
View ArticleAnswer by DocSalvager for We should be able to close questions as duplicates...
Merge by linking to one "master" question.Since the user/admin has already located duplicates, the messy and error-prone work is done. Merging would only require...Close the "slave" questions for edit...
View ArticleAnswer by Rachel for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
I disagree with this suggestion.People come to StackExchange for answers, and it is very frustrating to spend time writing up a question, only to have it get closed as a duplicate to another older...
View ArticleAnswer by gertvdijk for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
Ask Ubuntu and off-topic bugsOn AU we have the policy to close questions/issues about bugs as off-topic. Sometimes information related to the bug is very valuable and questions get updated in the...
View ArticleAnswer by RomanSt for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
I wish StackExchange would properly merge all the answers from linked duplicates. This would:ensure that I get to see every answer to the question, no matter where it got postedmake the best answer of...
View ArticleAnswer by Rosinante for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
I predict the following.People start flagging-for-moderator attention to ask for merges in these cases.Moderators groan under the load.Something different gets implemented.Compare the progression of...
View ArticleAnswer by ben is uǝq backwards for We should be able to close questions as...
I agree with the OP but I understand the reasons for doing this. Having unanswered duplicates closed in chain makes it less likely that any will get an answer as a potential answerer has to go through...
View ArticleAnswer by fbueckert for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
I'd like to point out that we tend to have a fairly established process for handling or updating duped questions on Arqade. If we can engage the new user (ie. They don't leave in a huff the instant we...
View ArticleAnswer by Shog9 for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of any...
This new change makes that more difficult because if a duplicate question is asked before the original gets an answer, it substantially decreases the likelihood that either question will be closed even...
View ArticleAnswer by mattdm for We should be able to close questions as duplicates of...
Could there be some way to automatically merge the questions when the prior near-identical one has no answers?
View ArticleAnswer by Lightness Races in Orbit for We should be able to close questions...
I could not agree more.Whether a question has answers has nothing to do with whether some other question is identical.Often we see users getting all disgruntled because their question got closed, then...
View ArticleWe should be able to close questions as duplicates of any question
Today, the behavior of duplicate close votes was changed so that a question can only be a duplicate close vote target if it has an upvoted or accepted answer. I think that this change is not a good one...
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