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What should you do if a question is a duplicate?

What should you do if a question is a duplicate?

In a nutshell: If a question is a duplicate of another question, flag or vote to close. Note: There are slightly different guidelines for closing as duplicate on meta sites. See the last section for more info.

When are two questions considered duplicates in Stack Exchange?

When are two questions considered duplicates? According to Stack Exchange co-founder Joel Spolsky, we should only close real duplicates, and according to co-founder Jeff Atwood, there are three kinds of duplicates: cut-and-pastes, accidental duplicates, and borderline duplicates (requiring judgement as applied by the community).

How to delete a question with a duplicate link?

To delete a question with duplicates, one must delete, reopen, or modify the duplicate links so that no question has the to-be-deleted question as a duplicate target. (Note that abandoned questions that are duplicate targets are still subject to automatic Roomba deletion by the Community user if any of the criteria apply.)

Why are there so many duplicates on Quora?

Degree of a node: Essentially, frequency of the question, there’ll be as many edges as many times that question has occurred in the dataset. This feature gave a huge gain, because the questions sampling (upsampling the duplicates) done by Quora was most likely dependent on this frequency.

In a nutshell: If a question is a duplicate of another question, flag or vote to close. Note: There are slightly different guidelines for closing as duplicate on meta sites. See the last section for more info.

When are two questions considered duplicates? According to Stack Exchange co-founder Joel Spolsky, we should only close real duplicates, and according to co-founder Jeff Atwood, there are three kinds of duplicates: cut-and-pastes, accidental duplicates, and borderline duplicates (requiring judgement as applied by the community).

To delete a question with duplicates, one must delete, reopen, or modify the duplicate links so that no question has the to-be-deleted question as a duplicate target. (Note that abandoned questions that are duplicate targets are still subject to automatic Roomba deletion by the Community user if any of the criteria apply.)

Can a duplicate question be closed in a meta stack?

A duplicate question could be closed, but not deleted. Duplicate questions are usually the result of poor phrasing on the existing questions or using synonymes. – neverMind9 Aug 17 ’18 at 11:54 In a nutshell: If a question is a duplicate of another question, flag or vote to close.

Degree of a node: Essentially, frequency of the question, there’ll be as many edges as many times that question has occurred in the dataset. This feature gave a huge gain, because the questions sampling (upsampling the duplicates) done by Quora was most likely dependent on this frequency.

How should duplicate questions be handled in meta stack?

Duplicate questions are not necessarily bad; different descriptions of the same problem help future visitors to find the answers they’re looking for. Try to remember that beginners are still learning terminology, and even the simplest of answers might be eluding them simply because they did not know what to search for.

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