Some time ago I created these two questions: "" and "". The first one is mor general, the second one refers to a concrete way of the solution. Anyway, the questions don't duplicate each other.  Now I've finally found a solution for the second question and it's also a possible solution for the first one. I want to post it as answer. Is it allowed to post the same solution for diferent questions? If not -- why?
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Let's say there is a user who has found a satisfactory answer to a common question asked on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange website).  This answer may be a snippet of code, or an addon, or a framework, or something else.    Is it acceptable for this user to formulate an answer for one question, find every related question and then copy the exact answer to each of those questions?  And, if not, what should  users who finds themselves in this situation do?
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The new "marked as duplicate" text says:     This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.   In some cases though, users like to re-post their questions rather than fixing their closed originals, so we close them as dupes of that original. In this case, the text simply doesn't apply.  It is also the only special case (not counting meta posts) where closing as duplicate does not require any answers on the original question.  If both duplicate questions have been asked by the same user, the text should be special cased to reflect that:     This question has been asked before by the same user.  Instead of re-posting, the original question should have been edited and clarified.   … which will provide better guidance, and it will only mention existence of any answers when it is relevant and true.
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When I post an answer to a brand new question I usually find that someone else has submitted that same answer just moments before. (, usually ;-) )  What I've started to do lately is (I think) the right thing.   If I notice that another answer predates mine, and that I add no value over it, I immediately delete my own answer, and upvote the other guy.  I recommend that you too do the same. Otherwise the message will be diluted.  Similarly, if after posting your "answer" you realise that you are in fact wrong (and you've just misread the question) -- you can actually delete your answer.  Is this reasonable?  (The reason why I'm writing this down is because it feels completely counter-intuitive to delete your own stuff. But it really saves everyone time and effort)
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I've noticed that with the new question asking form, sometimes, attempting to submit a question will post two identical copies of the same question.  I've  (), but at the time, I assumed it was just a temporary fluke. As far as I remember, I just reviewed the question, saw no errors, and submitted it. (That's all the info I have.)  However, I just saw this happen to someone else, so it can't just be a fluke on my end. , and . The author claims there that they did indeed double click the "Review" button, but their question didn't go through since it didn't have a required tag, but when they tried to submit the question with the required tag, they only clicked it once.  Also, now that I think about it, it could not have been just a temporary client-side issue on both our ends. The system is supposed to  if one tries to post more than one question in 30 seconds. Neither of us got a CAPTCHA. This means that the server accepted the double post, and so it's a server issue.  This has the effect of denying users badges that they would have otherwise qualified for, since a single negatively-received, closed, or deleted question . This means that even if the double post is deleted and the original is upvoted, the user won't qualify for that day since they've made a "bad" question on that day. (While they may be able to later reverse this 60 days later by undeleting and re-deleting their question - questions deleted more than 60 days later aren't considered "deleted" for the check - they often won't be able to, since most of the time, users will have downvoted the double post, which also disqualifies one from the badges.)  Can an employee go through server logs to see what happened in both these cases, and add some safeguards to prevent accidental double submissions of questions? This seems to have come up when the new asking form was deployed.  Update: There was another case just now:  was . As both have the exact same time of submission, this is an instance of this bug, since as I said above, this thing is ordinarily prevented by a CAPTCHA.
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I just asked my first question on stackoverflow and I'm really impressed that my question seems to be answered sufficiently already! See:    The issue I have is that the last two answers combined would provide the most complete answer. What's the proper way to go about combining them, marking the question answered, and giving credit where credit is due?  Thanks big time guys for saving us all from experts exchange hell!  Edit: Wow, 5 responses in 5 minutes. I think what makes the most sense is that I create my own answer out of the two. I don't think the second part of my question was answered though.  What is the proper way to give credit to the 2 answers that I'm combining? Is an upvote for each sufficient?
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I recently posted a question that quite promptly got a number of decent answers. One of those answers led me to a closely related but slightly different question. What's the best way to bring up that additional question? I could..   ask the new question in an "answer" to my original question (this is what I did, but it's kind of colder and, I suspect, less likely to be seen by people), edit my original question to include the second one, or post a new question.   Any thoughts?
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I always search to find whether my question is a duplicate or not before asking the question on Stack Overflow. But often I cannot find anything (maybe this is a language problem) and I ask my question. Then someone finds a duplicate question of my question and votes to close mine. So how can I avoid asking a duplicate question?
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I would like to ask a question on SO. However, a search reveals that a similar question has been asked, and I feel my question would get marked as a duplicate. The similar question has few answers - one of which is the accepted answer; and this answer is not the one I am looking for (i.e. it's a strategy change rather than a real solution to the answer).  I am very motivated to get an answer to this question - and thus would like to drive forward responses; possibly by offering a decent sized bounty.  Should I simply ask my question, or is it possible to get "ownership" of the similar question?
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Hello native English speakers!  I want to ask you about either and both. I tried to find similar questions in this site but I think they were not same with these ones.  My questions are;   I was invited to two parties, but I couldn't go to ------- of them.  I took two books with me on holidays, but I didn't read ------- of     them.   I choose both for questions 1 and 2. But the right answers were either. But I think both and either are correct either. Am I right?   Thank you in advance!
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I was really surprised with the way Stack Overflow question  was answered. One user had posted two answers ( and ) instead of using the "Edit" option on any one of the posts. The most surprising thing is the upvotes. The answers posted by the user got three upvotes for both of the answers. Is this the correct way of using the answering mechanism?  Please provide your thoughts.
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Possible Duplicates:      I have a question I'd like to ask, but an exact duplicate exists. It was asked by another user and has an accepted answer (unsatisfactory for me) more than a year ago. Is it acceptable to re-ask the question in hopes that a year has brought some additional insight or suggestions? Should I just bump the original question as ? See also:
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What's everyone's opinion on closing an older question as a duplicate of a newer one, if the newer one is clearly the better resource? I'm looking at a special case right now, where the two were posted by the same person; the  was migrated to SU before a commenter pointed out it was a . Is it considered good practice to close the older as a duplicate of the newer?  More generally, is it ok to do that for separate questions posted by different people, if the older question went unanswered but the newer has a good answer?  (I should probably mention I saw , but I think this is separate)
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Questions that are duplicates and triplicates are still asked, even though the automatic "Related Questions" list that appears must be showing them!  These re-asked questions still get upvotes even after a question has been closed as a duplicate. To further discourage the questions, perhaps prevent upvotes to them after they've been closed? Or transfer the upvotes to the master (canonical or original)?  Also, this might help meta question .
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The new closed-as-duplicate banner says:     This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please .   I think it should instead say     This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If answers there do not fully address your question, please  or  to the pre-existing one.   &mdash; to discourage re-re-asking the same question. (I also changed "those answers", which has no plural , to "answers there", which doesn't need one.)    As of September 19, 2013, the original text quoted above has returned here.
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Sometimes I'll encounter problems while coding, or sometimes out of simple interest for a question, I'll google for an answer, and most of the time I find that answer is here on stackoverflow.com.   If I can't find an answer, or if it's not enough to satisfy my curiosity, sometimes I expend my own effort to solve those questions. And after I've solved it, I'm happy to make my contribution to the community, and I post them as the Q&amp;A style posts. For example:     It seems relatively easier to ask a question if I didn't already have a solution, and I can put what I have so far in the question body, such as:     The problem to me is, if I have my own solution to my own question, then most of what I have so far becomes part of the solution. It's likely I have failed in making my contribution by asking a question to which I have an answer, for example:     So I'm wondering if there are some guidelines or good practices for Q&amp;A style posts?   How do I do it better?
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In common American English usage, these two questions elicit the same response:   Do you have a ticket? Don't you have a ticket?   These are the usual answers (I was going to say "possible answers" but I can think of a whole host of situations where one could get other answers, e.g. wake up someone in the middle of the night and ask it, the answer might easily be "I don't know" or "maybe" or "hey, just let me sleep!"... but that's neither here nor there... :-)   Positive: "Yes" or "Yes, I do". Negative "No" or "No, I do not".   But consider this: the questions are logically equivalent to:   You have a ticket, right? You do not have a ticket, right?   Here I am not so sure that a "Yes, that's right" response means the same thing to each question. (One could still, however, use "Yes, I do" as @F'x answer in  illustrates, to remain valid and unambiguous.)  (As a side note, it is interesting to compare the same question in Chinese, where one literally asks "Do you have/not have a ticket?" and the common answers are:   "[I] have" "[I] not have"   ...which also removes the ambiguity... while at the same time straying from my original question:-)  So why can I rewrite the questions so that they are essentially equivalent yet expect different answers?
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Is it okay to repost a question from another Q&amp;A website/forum that was never answered there? Is that plagiarism?  I came across  that is very similar to a problem I am currently encountering, and would really like to see an answer/response. Would it b e appropriate to copy and paste that question into a question on Stack Overflow?