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Q: Is it duplicate question or answer?

MaryThis question was closed on the grounds it was a duplicate. However, the question listed as its duplicate did not give any of the same criteria for the work. The answer was the same, but there are a lot of very different questions that could have the same answer. So what is the criterion?

 
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Q: MCU connected to Doctor Who?

agarzaIn the post-credit scene of Ant-Man and The Wasp, Janet van Dyne tells Scott Lang: "Don't get sucked into a time vortex. We won't be able to save you." Is there a connection to the Doctor Who and the time vortex in that universe? Or are the words "time vortex" just a coincidence?

 
12:42 AM
@Nicolas couple of nitpicking: "game play" is one word (at least I've always seen it written as such), and the two "If your question..." introductory sentences could use a comma, respectively after "story" and "fantastical". Otherwise, looks good, thanks!! — Jenayah 22 secs ago
 
12:58 AM
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Q: I'm a young girl running for my life through the corridors in this wonderfully frantic story -- can anyone find it again?

Walt DonovanThe most fascinating thing about this story was these weird icons every few pages, rendered very approximately from memory: The girl runs, other people run with her or into her, she goes through a door. Then there's another icon, but subtly different. (E.g., with more rings or fewer rings.) The ...

 
@Jenayah Can I nitpick your nitpicking?
@Slartibartfast What's the point of the duplicate system for if it only gets implemented after the questions are both answered?
 
1:18 AM
 
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Q: Can Betazoids read their own minds?

UuDdLrLrSsBetazoids in Star Trek have varying degrees of telepathy and telepathic empathy. In most storylines I can think of, these abilities were focused on their interactions with others. However I would imagine that just like sight, sound, etc., one's senses can be used to observe oneself and in fact, y...

 
1:46 AM
@Alex it would work best if you could suggest them to users without being likely to close the question straight away
 
@AncientSwordRage How about a comment something like: "Hi AncientSwordRage, your question seems pretty similar to this question that has previously been asked and answered. If you find that it is the same as yours you can flag yours as a duplicate."
Someone's taken the rage out of the ancient sword.
 
@Alex that works
 
2:01 AM
It sure is.
 
2:38 AM
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Q: What was Thorin's plan if Bilbo hadn't woken up Smaug?

Techrocket9In The Hobbit, Thorin sends Bilbo in first to scout out the mountain and maybe snatch the Arkenstone if convenient, all ideally without waking the dragon (Smaug). Of course, the dragon is awakened and Bard ends up killing it. What was Thorin's plan should Bilbo have succeeded in his task without ...

 
3:03 AM
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Q: In Star Trek TNG's episode, "The Neutral Zone," how were the frozen dead people revived if they died BEFORE they were frozen?

M MSurely doctors in the Star Trek universe don't have the power to bring the dead back to life? If so, why wasn't this power used on other dead characters? Why wasn't this incredible power explored in other episodes if they do indeed have it? It's made clear in the episode by Dr. Krusher that the p...

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Q: Would Spock warning Starfleet about V'Ger and the Whale Probe violate the Prime Directive?

user255577I would like to know if the 24th Century Spock would violate the Prime Directive if he were to warn 23rd Century Starfleet of the coming threats of the V'Ger ship and the Whale Probe. I'm referring to the Spock of the 24th Century who traveled back in time to the 23th Century during the events in...

 
 
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6:24 AM
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Q: Early 2010 TV show about magic dice

LukeI remember watching a few cool shows when I was younger, like really young I barely remember only clips. I found two other shows I used to watch (Kaijudo and Magi-Nation if you're interested). But there was a third one, and it had to do with magic dice. It was an animated show with teenage charac...

 
6:49 AM
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Q: When did the Emperor decide to make Horus the Warmaster?

ShadeSo, we all know that Horus became Warmaster after he fight for Ullanor. I know that Horus was his favourite primarch: For a thirty years he was the only Primarch to have been discovered. Friendship between the Emperor and Horus grew rapidly and the Emperor eventually trusted him enough to give h...

 
 
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8:04 AM
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Q: How does Neo come back to life?

NathanSI'm referring to the scene at the end of the first film where he is shot "dead" by Agent Smith, then after some scenes of his heart monitor flat-lining and Trinity telling him he can't be dead, his heart monitor shows a pulse again and he gets back up to continue fighting Agent Smith, with now fa...

 
 
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9:44 AM
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Q: Power inconsistencies in season 2 of The Umbrella Academy

pajevicIn the last episode of season 2 Luther is shot and killed by simple gun fire. However, in the first episode, in the fight just before the apocalypse, he is seen taking a tank grenade directly in the back and is completely unharmed. Is there any logic to this? Also, in the fight above, Allison con...

 
@Alex Well you can't do it beforehand; if you're wrong that just causes more work, hassle and annoys people
 
 
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11:26 AM
Can't believe I overlooked the answer for this for so long:
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A: Why is the Blip so brutal but the Snap is soft?

TheLethalCarrotI've been searching for this on and off since it was asked and after looking at the scene again I think the answer is actually quite simple. In Spider-Man: Far From Home we only see two comparative clips of the Snap versus the Blip, both of the sports hall in Midtown School of Science and Technol...

At least it's another ticked off the list! :)
 
 
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12:40 PM
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Q: 60s/70s movie with buggies and time-shifting protagonist

Martin BeanI remember as a kid watching something on TV that looked like it was filmed in the late ‘60s or ‘70s. I can’t remember if it was a series or a movie (although I think it may have been a movie) and can only remember a particular scene. There was a chase in tiny electric buggies. The protagonist wa...

 
SQB
@TheLethalCarrot nicely done. Have an up vote.
 
Cheers
I've honestly watched that clip so many times since that question looking for the answer and never realised
Probably because I too had the assumption that it was instant
 
SQB
@TheLethalCarrot I'd like the opportunity to suggest a duplicate to the querant only.
 
Well that is what answering/commenting is, just without the official close
 
SQB
Without allowing other users to vote.
Of course it is, but it would make for a nice addition to duplicate voting.
On other stacks as well; I've seen (and had) questions closed as duplicates that weren't.
 
12:44 PM
It's one of those that has some edge case uses but doesn't really add much improvement to the system
In my opinion anyway
 
SQB
"How do I bar a foo without using jQuery?"
Duplicate: "Bar a foo with jQuery"
 
Well yeah SO can be a pain
And they did at least used to love jQuery
 
SQB
How about a cooling off period first? Suggest a possible dupe, give the OP 24 hours or some other suitable period to confirm or reject that, then allow voting on it, only if the OP didn't respond.
If the OP rejects, they must provide a reason, then the rejected suggestion + reason is displayed somewhere on the question.
 
Isn't that essentially what the system already does, albeit in a much shorter timeframe?
15 minutes from first Cv till the queue starts
And a box on the question for the OP to edit to explain if not dupe
You'd still have to send all questions to the CV queue as well; just make it clear if the OP provided a rejection reason, the amount of people that would just reject it because they didn't want it closing or didn't read the linked etc.
Just open to abuse
 
SQB
1:49 PM
Damn, I missed the sad news about Mike. Dammit.
 
1:59 PM
@SQB Yeah sad times
 
SQB
My condolences to all of us, really.
 
Hmm. I just noticed his user is still active; is it wrong of me to think that 100 more upvotes will put him over 100k?
 
@DavidW not at all wrong
 
2:20 PM
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Q: What is the first fictional container that is magically smaller on the inside?

kutschkemA container that is magically larger on the inside than on the outside is something that appears more or less often in fiction. What is the first fictional container that, for some reason or another (maybe just humor) is magically smaller on the inside?

 
3:11 PM
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Q: How many languages could Gandalf speak?

Severus SnapeIn the movies, I see: Gandalf read and spoke fluent Elvish. He could read Black Speech. He showed Thorin Oakenshield the note that promised payment for the latter's head. He also chants the ring inscription in The council of Elrond. I'm unsure how fluent was he. Not sure if it was intentional....

 
 
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4:26 PM
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Q: Cartoon about animal transformation

CarlA cartoon about man transforming into animals by the use of vambraces. It's kinda old and I don't know the title of it.

 
5:08 PM
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Q: What is the children's book about a troll looking for a rope to hang his brother?

BirdNerdThere is a book I remember from the 1980s (but I had older siblings, so it may have been a decade earlier) that followed the structure of "the house that jack built" but was about 2 brothers that may have been trolls. I think one brother stole berries or maybe a pie from the other, so he was tryi...

 
Greetings, Earthlings.
 
6:11 PM
What ho!
 
 
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7:13 PM
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Q: Is it duplicate question or answer?

MaryThis question was closed on the grounds it was a duplicate. However, the question listed as its duplicate did not give any of the same criteria for the work. The answer was the same, but there are a lot of very different questions that could have the same answer. So what is the criterion?

Worth rediscussing?
 
7:24 PM
I know there are lots of people who think so but personally I’m not too bothered either way and I don’t think it’s worth changing things now because 1) it’s what we already do, a lot of work to re-educate 2) there would be a lot of work to in duplicate stuff but you couldn’t do everything because of same OP dupes
And I generally like grouping them together, it groups information on the story together which is nice in my opinion
 
7:37 PM
I can see it going either way, but the questions should be linked. Is there any other way to link two questions?
 
If a post is linked in a comment, the question or an answer it shows in the linked secrion
in the linked section of both questions that is
But that requires the link to stay around
I’m not sure if there is a max limit to what is shown there though and how you would officially do it
 
7:58 PM
@TheLethalCarrot that's my preference too
 
8:12 PM
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Q: What happened to those indirectly killed by the Snap?

Jorge CórdobaBased on the images that are shown right after the Snap, there seems to be a lot of deaths that are side effects of the snap. Everyone who was on a plane when the pilot went away, people in cars, and similar situations. Those were, strictly speaking, natural deaths, so the question is: were those...

 
8:37 PM
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Q: Why was conn held by low-ranking officers?

O. R. MapperIn some of the Star Trek series, most notably in TNG, the conn officer (the person steering the ship) was often a rather low-ranking crewmember. In particular, the list included total newbies (Wesley Crusher), crewmembers who would occasionally also do other things (Ro Laren), and an overall larg...

 
 
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9:37 PM
@TheLethalCarrot I agree that grouping makes sense. And grouping based on answer is the only way that works. My only concern is that we should be trying harder to either group to the best answer or spend some time improving the target answer if that's somehow deemed too hard.
 
I agree, I’ve written on meta before about what criteria to use in dupe direction
its hard though to organise it properly though with so many users and most don’t even know how the dupe policy works to begin with
 
I just finished watching Blake's 7.
Jeeeeesus what an ending.
 
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Q: Is Harry Potter a coming of age story?

LolmanWhen talking about the coming of age genre a friend of mine mentioned Harry Potter as an example. I found myself incapable of sharing this idea since not only I do not think that the core of the plot of HP is about his growth but I think HP does not portrait any kind of notable growth of the prot...

 
Even having been spoiled about the essential nature of the ending, I was still shocked and awestruck.
 
10:18 PM
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Q: How long has passed in Fort Salem?

JontiaMotherland: Fort Salem follows Raelle Collar, Abigail Bellweather and Tally Craven, three witches who are enlisted in the U.S. Army. By the end of the first season, they have completed basic and are moving onto the next phase. But it's not clear to me how much time has passed, weeks, months, year...

 

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