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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
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Q: Recommendation when a duplicate cannot be found

Martin BrandenburgWe have the policy that duplicate questions should not recieve answers and instead should be closed as duplicates. Now what shall I do in the following situation: A question is asked, for which I have an answer in mind, but I think is likely to be a duplicate. I use the search feature to verify ...

discussion exact-duplicates search
One possibility is to have a chat room devoted to searching for likely dupes. But it may not get much use since many users are motivated by the SE rep game and they get no rep for locating dupes but plenty of rep for posting fgtiw dupe answers. — Bill Dubuque Oct 12 at 22:19
@BillDubuque There already exists a chatroom related to searching - I assume it could be suitable for this purpose, too? (Although looking at that room, one can see that it is not very active.) — Martin Sleziak yesterday

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