6 up votes for a comment telling me its a duplicate when it is not. 4 votes to close despite no one reading the actual question. no answer accepted.  I have found a link that explains.    So long SO, account closed.
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I'm currently passing the pid on the command line to the child, but is there a way to do this in the Win32 API?  Alternatively, can someone alleviate my fear that the pid I'm passing might belong to another process after some time if the parent has died?
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What should I do when I see a question that is a duplicate of another one?   Should I answer it? Should I downvote it? Should I comment? Should I edit the question to indicate it's a duplicate? If I can, should I (vote to) close the question? What happens when I vote to close as duplicate? Or: Why did a comment with my name on it just appear? Should I flag it for moderator attention? What about similar or related questions?
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I just got a review audit where the "late answer" was a duplicate of the accepted answer, but flagging it on that basis failed the review. That seems like a bug to me.  Question here:   I found that by clicking the question to view the entire Q&amp;A, and noticed that the copy was from a generic "user12345" account (probably with 1 rep as well) and the original from a real-looking account. Viewing the whole Q&amp;A is often useful when reviewing, especially late answers (which are often repeats of earlier points, disagreements with those, or random addendums better submitted as edits). I looked at the duplicate and thought "weird, rep harvesting maybe?" so I clicked "needs moderator attention" and wrote "copy and paste of accepted answer". FAIL!  I think that this review type can't ever work, because to avoid the problem I found you'd need to make up whole new "late answers" which by definition the review bot can't know anything useful about. Either that or to pass you'd just need to take any action at all, including upvoting the original of the duplicated answer. Which I didn't do, BTW, because I had no idea or opinion about the question or answer.  (this is not a duplicate of "What are review tests", it predates that and focuses on a particular defect within the process. See the comments below).
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When closing a question in the iOS app as duplicate, the UI is very challenging.  I understand this is not exactly an easy UI to do given the limitations, but still, it's very complex.  One of the worst experiences, though, is when you're voting to close  a question that's already been voted for as duplicate by someone else's vote.  You have to get the duplicate's URL and copy it, and then paste it - there's no automatic link.  When I'm in the app, I usually find cases where I see an obvious duplicate from comments - I'm not doing tons of research, I only vote where it is obvious.  When there's a close vote as duplicate already pending, please give either a list of already chosen URLs, or something similar.  Even if it's only possible when there's only one selection - this would be far better than zero, where you then have to go back to the post, copy the link from comments, and vote again.
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Since the  to the close as duplicate mechanism it is a lot more visible to the OP that there is/might be a duplicate to their question. Empirically, I've noticed a lot more people agreeing, in the comments under their question, that their question is a dupe.   For instance, :        I'm aware that allowing  is  (back in the stone age) but now Stack Exchange is so much larger, and Stack Overflow is groaning under the weight of questions, I think this should be partially revisited.  Based on the principle that the simplest way to keep a site clean is to have as many people as possible nibbling away, I propose that the OP gets granted a binding close-as-duplicate vote.  It should simply be an additional line in the banner, which is . It might be something like this:     This question may already have an answer here:   &nbsp; "" 3 answers   &nbsp; Does this fully answer your question?  Yes / No   I'm not wedded to the Yes / No thing I just can't think of a better way at the moment.  Clicking on Yes would take the OP to the close as duplicate dialogue with that question highlighted. If there are multiple duplicate questions you'd need to ask the OP multiple times. A No could be used to track the relative success of the project, i.e.   Whether the question subsequently gets closed. Whether the question gets reopened again. How many times the OP actually clicks. How many times the OP disagrees with the analysis of the community.   Potentially, a No could be used to open a comment dialogue asking the OP to explain why they think their question is not a duplicate thereby stopping them simply putting "this is not a duplicate" in the question and formalising this process somewhat. Not sure about this idea...  I do not think this should be restricted by reputation, anyone should be able to close their own question as a duplicate. It gives people with lower reputation a more positive experience of the closing process and emphasises the importance of duplicate finding.  Most importantly, self-closes should not, initially, count towards the question ban. We can help new users learn how to use a lot more of the site than they might otherwise see and encourage them to search for duplicates more thoroughly. If the OP then goes on to do the same thing 10 times in a row then you can start using it toward the ban as they're obviously using the users as a personalised search service but at least the first 3-4 times this should not have any effect.  This question is, deliberately, only requesting 20% of the linked question (from 2009) and then only based on the new UI. The linked question asks for binding migration votes etc, which I do not want to see and I am not requesting a binding close-as-duplicate for the OP until someone else has already voted to close (though I think if the OP has 3k rep this might be allowable). This, I hope, addresses the concern's raised in the linked question and explains why this is not a duplicate of that question.
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I just  marked as a duplicate by a user, who didn't seem to have read the content of the post, and left a "Read the documentation." comment,  without even giving any additional explanation.   The post then got enough votes to be re-opened after other users pointed out that the proposed dupe wasn't the same problem.  My problem was eventually solved, but I couldn't help but wonder if users should get some sort of notice or warning for incorrectly closing a post that is eventually reopened?
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The questions  and  were both marked as duplicates.   However, one of them has a different "marked as duplicate" notice below from the other. The first says "This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question",  and the other one says "This question has been asked before and already has an answer".   I thought that maybe the messages were different because one of the questions is mine and the other one isn't as explained at , so I logged out and saw that there were still two different messages:            There are two differences that I noticed. First of all, the first one was closed by someone who had a gold badge in one of the question's tags, whereas the other one was closed by five normal users. Second of all, the first closure is much more recent than the other one. Is the reason to the different wording one of these? Or is there another reason?  Why are there two different duplicate notices? What is the difference between them?  This is not a duplicate of , as that question asks about the link to the target question above, while mine asks about the "marked as duplicate" notice below.
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I posted a comment on an answer, and refreshed the page.  I then noticed that someone else had also posted a comment.  His comment had an earlier timestamp, but was below mine.    What happened?  (I'm using the Android app, if that matters.)
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When the OP posted , the contents looked like "AAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAA". Obviously, no-one was going to understand this, so we downvoted and voted to close. After closure, I immediately voted to delete the question. A few seconds later, the OP updated the question. I voted to re-open, and a few minutes later, the question was re-opened.  I've just reviewed the Q&amp;A, and it's garbage:   The question is unclear (the fiddle doesn't match the question's code). The only answer was was invalidated after the question was updated again (it pointed to a typo). The invalid answer was accepted with the  "My problem was somewhere else but I did learn that JSFiddle needs the tag table. thanks" (note: has nothing to do with the question).   For these reasons, I decided to cast a close vote, which summoned the following screen:   As you can see, there are no pending close votes, but the screen still shows that I have already cast a close vote. This looks like a bug (possibly caused by my previous delete vote?).
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Someone  to try and get help reopening , and it got deleted as a result.  I voted to undelete it and flagged it as well since , and noticed it has been deleted a 2nd time, with the same user initiating the delete vote.    I can also vote to undelete a 2nd time.  Why are delete/undelete votes not limited to once per user per post the way close/reopen votes are?
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I have a question on Super User that was closed as an exact duplicate. In my opinion this is in error, the other question is similar in that they both revolve around the presence or lack of the same feature however the two questions approach the feature from distinct use cases. At present the answer to the two questions IS the same, however in time, because their purposes differ, a third party solution could arrive to one or the other which does not solve both use cases. Having one question closed prevents it being (potentially) answered.  Admittedly, in the initial versions of the question was not worded so the differences were apparent, so it was valid to close it. Now it has been revised so the differences are clear. Adding a comment or editing and old question doesn't get fresh eyes on it, no front page exposure. So what does one do? Ask a question like this here on meta? Ask the question anew with the better phrasing?  There is another meta question asking about this, , but the theme is quite different, being about appealing a closure in the milieu of flame wars and off-topic debates.
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It looks like this issue has , but it just happened again on Travel.SE. Perhaps this is another corner case? These two questions are closed as duplicates of each other.           I had the last vote on each, although in both cases, my vote was for "Unclear what you're asking", but the weight of votes in both cases were for the duplicate status. So if the existing checks are only in place at the time someone casts a close vote, that would explain how this one got in under the radar. Perhaps another check needs to be done when the question is actually closed, not just when close votes are cast?  And as @gnat points out, low-rep/logged-out users get a Redirect loop when trying to load either question.  NOTE: A moderator has already fixed this particular circular duplicate situation by closing one of the questions with a different close reason.
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I noticed that the  was deleted.   When the  came out, I tried to look for my old answer as well as others for comparison.  Why not just mark the old one superseded by [insert link]?  Note: I don't care about lost rep. There were a lot of useful links in answers and comments there (and some less-than-useful ones too).     Old CoC FAQ may be available  and . Source: (, ).
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I just saw a post (deleted)  which was deleted by  but is shown as:   deleted by Charles, Gordon♦, Gordon♦ 1 min ago   How is it that one person (whether a mod or not) can vote twice on the same post?
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Someone voted to close my question as a duplicate. I agreed, so I cast my close vote (I have enough reputation to vote to close).  . So I expected this to happen.  But it didn't. This confused me — is this not a question I asked after all? No, it is. Maybe I need to reload the page? Nope, the question still isn't closed. Is the asker confirmation feature broken? Well, there's the “This question may already have an answer here” banner at the top. What if I click “That solved my problem!”? Ah, that does close the question.  It turns out that only clicking “That solved my problem!” instantly closes the question. Casting a close vote has a different effect, it's just an ordinary close vote.  Please make casting a close vote equivalent to clicking “That solved my problem!”.
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I was browsing SO today when I stumbled across these two questions:    So, both questions are closed.*  The problem?  Each questions is closed as a duplicate of the other; within one minute of each other (they were both closed "8 minutes ago" when I first checked).  Can we add a feature to detect this and prevent a circular Close as Duplicate like this?  Better yet, prevent newer questions than the current one from showing up in the Close as Duplicate list.  *As of 2010/06/17 18:32 UTC the first question is now reopened and the second deleted.
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I nominated  to be closed as a dup. I see that two other people upvoted my comment, so they might have voted to close it as well. Now, we didn't gather enough votes, and all close votes expired ... and I can't re-vote to close. What is the motivation behind expiring close votes ... especially for close-as-duplicate? Update: Please take into consideration:  Beta Stack Exchange sites have a smaller community, and fewer people with voting privileges Closing as a duplicate is &quot;usually the right thing&quot; IMHO - much less controversial than closing as off topic. After a vote is reset, the original users can't vote again. On a small site, this makes it even harder to get a consensus of five votes.