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-[title] Merge as Duplicate
+[title] Merge as a Duplicate
[* red] Three community user votes are required for the question to be deemed "merge as a duplicate."
[* icon_note] Duplicate questions are questions that ask the same thing and have the exact same answer.
[* black] Often two questions are very similar, but the person asking the second question has not searched for or found the first question.
[* black] The second person has a valid question, so we don't want to attack them for not understanding the system.
[* icon_reminder] Marking the second question as a duplicate automatically gives it all the answers from the first question.
[* icon_caution] In this case, you must be able to accurately judge whether a question is truly an exact duplicate.