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This tag is referring to the process of identifying and dealing with answers that are exact duplicates of another answer.

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Stack Overflow gets a steady stream of code-only answers that are plagiarized, verbatim, from other answers to the same question. See Can we get some automated filtering of answers that are entirely ...
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I just have a plagiarism flag declined on this post. Some observations on the post: It could be a duplicate answer to another earlier answer It could be a comment / "thank you" message to ...
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That is literally a comment I stumbled upon (not on my contribs :), nevertheless I've seen many similar comments throughout the years, especially to new users. While I generally agree with the some of ...
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I was about to answer Is there a way to highlight certain class usage as a warning? but before doing so, I wanted to make sure it had no duplicates. After searching, I found these 2 pretty related ...
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A few hours ago, following guidance from Flag Duplicate Answers on the same Question, I raised moderator flags on 4 answers to How to remove time portion of date in C# in DateTime object only?. As you ...
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On a bit of a whim I've spent some time on and off during the past couple of weeks looking through the New Answers to Old Questions feed, and I have noticed a recurring pattern of plagiarism. A few ...
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I work in mongodb for most of my time on Stack Overflow. From time to time, I see new answers being added to old, famous questions, which usually duplicate existing (accepted/upvoted) answers. Most of ...
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I have had this happen to me and seen it happen to others multiple times and I am wonder what the appropriate response (if any) would be to the following scenario: Some answer will have posted code ...
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At the suggestion of a Mod in chat, I'm putting out a call for help in flagging the chaos in the apache-age answers which I (and several others) have noticed. I'm not an expert in this area, but even ...
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Sometimes, answers could be very similar: use the same system/class/method/library, but they are not 100% copied. I found an example with this question: How do I read / convert an InputStream into a ...
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Recently, I posted an answer to an old CSS question that uses a modern technique to enable something which—to the best of my knowledge—previously wasn't possible to accomplish properly with CSS. ...
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I accidentally wrote the answer to the wrong question, and then I replaced it. Then I wrote the answer to the right question. It was accepted and had two upvotes. But a moderator deleted it for no ...
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There are a lot of questions asking about importing content from websites (web scraping) using Google Sheets formulas. Researching for a canonical Q&A, I found there are dozens of bad questions ...
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I posted a duplicate answer to two separate threads, one about calling JS from C++ and one about calling JS from C. I think they're fundamentally different domains, but my solution was mainly aimed at ...
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