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This tag is referring to the process of identifying and closing questions that are exact duplicates of another question.

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Duplicates and closing questions.

EDIT 2: Here's one of the problems (example post): There comes a question, not too hard to answer, and before you find the duplicates and post a comment, there's already an answer (or several answers). …
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Deleting duplicate questions

As a rule of thumb I'd say: If it's an exact duplicate (or a follow-up) of the same user, then it's good to delete to keep our site tidy. If it's a different user, don't delete; at the moment, I can't …
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