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There has been some discussions around handling duplicate questions here. I have made a more concrete proposal, please discuss there:

Handling duplicate questions

Problem There has been some discussion around question closure in general. The discussions always included “marking as duplicate” as a default close reason, which simply links to a list of user-selected posts. Recently there has been some debate, how duplicate content should be handled. I can conclude two main requirements, which are shared by a lot of people, from these discussions: Posts which are duplicating an other one need to be closed (preventing answers) and there’ll need to be a way…