@MartinSleziak I flagged this for moderators attention, so that the moderator who will handle the flag can decide. (I've linked in the flag to the explanation given above.) So I am removing this from the starboard.

The last two messages by SmokeDetector were caused by user defacing their post. So maybe we should not move them into trash, so that they stay here for a bit as a reminder to check in a few days whether the posts of this particular user are still intact?

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

@MartinSleziak Ah, I'm so sorry, I didn't see your last message before moving the messages...

Is there a way to move back the messages?

@NajibIdrissi It does not matter that much. In any case, link to the post which was defaced is also in my last message.

(As for the duplicates, I agree with your point of view, merging seems to be a good idea. But that's up to the moderators)

I do not know whether it is possible to move messages back. (But in this particular case it is not that imporant.)

Duplicates: We will see what will be the response of the mod who will handle my flag.

This Data.SE requests finds copy-pasted answers.

This could be useful for finding duplicates (if two questions could be answered by the exact same answer, they are most probably duplicates...)

Since the query runs slowly and I don't know if it needs to be rerun when someone views it, here are the results in CSV format: pastebin.com/cLQhKZcB

Sql-skills of some users are impressive.

Thanks :) (if that includes me)

I'm still looking for a way to compare similar answers, say 95% similar answers. Right one a one-letter difference means the query won't find the copied answers.

This Data.SE query finds copy-pasted answers (including the closing date of the parent question, if any).

And the results in pastebin.

(By the way, the behavior of some users is appalling. They purposefully answer duplicate questions on the very same day...)

duplicate Finite Ring with unity and no zero divisors is field apparently left the review queue with 4 close votes

@NajibIdrissi closed

Thanks @Martin. By the way in my comment I thought I could just enter /review/close/{post id} to find the reviews, but it actually doesn't work that way, the id is different (which is why I thought the post had left the review queue). Is there a way to find past reviews for a given post? (Other than going through /review/close/history, which isn't feasible if the post was reviewed some time ago).

@NajibIdrissi I do not know about other possibility.

In this particular case I was able to find it from Mark Bennett's acitivity tab.

Here is the review.

Since you were the user who vote first, you could also look in your close vote history. That could give you idea when approximately the post entered the queue.

But I do not know a way to find review for a specific action (closing, reopening, ...) on a given post.

[ SmokeDetector ] Repeating characters in title: algebra0000000000000000000000 by user217948 on math.stackexchange.com

@FamousBlueRaincoat The close votes expired. Should this be kept on the starboard?

I de-starred it