The "Linked Questions" sidebar is a user-generated list of related questions shown when viewing a question. Its content comes from questions that users have linked in the question, their answers, or in comments.
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“More linked questions” view does not show all linked questions
I have a favourite canonical question for PDO problems, "How to squeeze error message out of PDO?"
It's been used many dozens of times, as the "linked" column on that question shows. In fact, there ...
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Duplicates not being linked when using alternate link text
On this question, kleopatra has pointed out a duplicate question in the comments but has embedded the link and used custom text to describe it. On the right hand side, there was no Linked section ...
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Linked questions should not appear in the list of related questions
Sometimes (e.g. in this question of mine) the same question appears twice in the side column - once as a linked question, then again as related. A bug?
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“See more linked questions” only works one way
If I understand correctly how the linked questions works; if the post Q1 contains a link to Q2 (anywhere on the page - in the comments, in the answers, in the question) then Q1 is shown among linked ...
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Why Related links have no “nofollow” attribute [duplicate]
I noticed that the links at the right of any stackoveflow.com pages lacks "nofollow" attribute. CMIIW, but these links is result of algorithm work that compares question based on automatic text ...
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Indication of accepted answer in the related and linked posts section
I see that "related" and "linked" posts section (on the right side) shows score/vote count adjacent to each post's title. To be consistent with vote count display in other areas of the site, I suggest ...
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Display other SE site links in the linked questions sidebar
Maybe using a different font or a small site-icon.
Hijack edit: ~~~~ jco - Based on this discussion: Hodofhod Asks About Intra-network Related Questions
Example. In the below answer from Justin is ...
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Let linked questions have an arrow indicating which question is linking
Currently, having a look at the linked questions sections it is impossible to tell whether the question is linked to by the current question, vice versa or both. I think this makes a significant ...
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What does 'questions with most links' mean?
On Stack Overflow, 'FAQ' questions are "questions with most links". What does 'links' mean here?
Does it mean the questions contain a lot of URL links or the question has a lot of comments, answers ...
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Seemingly unrelated linked question(s) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Whoa! What is this “Linked” thing?
Just noticed one of my questions today ( Bold / Italics in codeblocks ) has two "linked" questions that (unless I am blind) aren't ...
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Position / Styling of Linked Questions
What does the community think about the positioning of the Linked Questions list.
For me, I associate content on the side of a page as navigation / ancillary information, not to link to important ...
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How to link posts
I posted a question on Stack Overflow which is a follow on from a question I posted a few days earlier. Is there anyway for me to link that previous post to my current post, or do only moderators have ...
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Should duplicates add to the duplicated question's score?
When a question is closed as a duplicate of another, should the other question's score be affected?
I'm thinking this would be a good secondary mechanism for promoting the visibility of questions ...
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Questions not removed from “Linked” when comments are deleted
This has been reported a long time ago; things might very well have been fixed by now. I can hardly imagine this is a real issue, but maybe it's not too nice for SEO or the data dump? So:
A question ...
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Should there be a way to link questions?
Currently, we can edit a question to put in a link to related items, we can add a comment and we can suggest a duplicate when voting to close, however, I think it would be beneficial if there were a ...
