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A user can cast a ballot to close a question for a number of reasons like it's a duplicate of another question or off-topic.

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We need to be more careful about closing questions as duplicates

Remember that a duplicate answer is not the same as a duplicate question. Close duplicate QUESTIONS. Don't close a question that *happens to have the same answer as another question." As a purely h …
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