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Are duplicates creating broken windows?
I think the Eternal September is dooming Stack Overflow to have the same questions asked over and over again, and the people who don't want questions closed are winning.
Why don't people want ...
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The Wikipedia of Long Tail Programming Questions
So I have just read the newest blog entry and it seems to be addressing something I had brought up here before, namely a way to deal with the constant stream of duplicated questions. It's interesting, ...
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Suggestion how to handle frequently asked questions?
It's not secret that most of the questions asked today at Stack Overflow were asked before.
While there is a value of several duplicated questions, but there isn't a value if there're hundreds of ...
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Close as “Exact Duplicate” does not recognize links from Facebook sub-domain
While not originally brought up as a result of this discussion, balpha replied regarding this matter:
We should probably make sure it works anyway...
So here's the formal feature request.
Users ...
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Answer stealers
Am I wrong when I get annoyed when I post an answer, someone else sees it, and posts the SAME answer with some minor textual changes. Then after the answer has been there for say, 20 hours, if he ...
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Is “closing for duplicates” still relevant/realistic on Stack Overflow?
Disclaimer: I only use SO from time to time, so this is only based on a "light" view of it.
Also, this is not a question about "should we close as a duplicate?". The answer is obviously yes. This ...
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Does the search function need improvement?
Often I notice that the search function seems a bit off.
Don't get me wrong, I've found lots of great questions and answers. It just appears, to me, that it heavily leans towards getting questions ...
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list of duplicates: Subversion repository organization questions
There are a lot of questions on SO about Subversion repository organization. Perhaps some experts on the subject could go through these and identify some good candidates for the "canonical questions" ...
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Multiple duplicated question on SO are being migrated to PSE partially
Stackoverflow should do a proper cleanup on questions before migrate to PSE. See this example: Getting started with open source. It has multiple duplicates including this migrated question: So I want ...
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Could the mobile SO site show possible duplicate questions
I noticed this issue as I tend to view SO via the mobile site frequently:
The mobile versions of SO and meta (at least), don't show possible duplicate questions while you're typing the ...
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2answers
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Finding duplicates on Stack Overflow, programmatically
How would you go about finding duplicates questions on Stack Overflow? More generally, given access to a data-feed of the Stack Overflow material (titles, questions, answers, comments), what ...
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Why are people so trigger happy with close as duplicate?
I have asked this question which I don't honestly think is a duplicate of the question linked as motivation for closing. They are both about java, but one is about the language and the other one about ...
