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3:35 AM

@jivings @AlexChamberlain I added an answer to my new question re: Bluetooth. Unfortunately, that does make it a duplicate of the previous bluetooth question. I duplicated the answer there, with some Mac specific add ons, but they should probably be merged at this point.

Manishearth

4:26 AM

Q: Are there any legitimate uses for manually amputating the dupe hatnote?

Related: Should users be allowed to remove the "Possible Duplicate" links on closed questions? In this question, a user edited their post so that it was no longer a dupe, and then manually removed the auto-inserted possible dupe header. Now, this comment says: @Josh Yup, you a...

We'll see what the community says--you do make a good point about it possibly being not abuse

A: Are there any legitimate uses for manually amputating the dupe hatnote?

Editing out the duplicate link isn't going to magically cause your question to be reopened to new answers. It'll remain closed as a duplicate — we just have to jump through an extra hoop to find out what question(s) it was closed as a duplicate of. As a question asker, if you feel that your ques...