A few minutes ago I flagged this question as a duplicate of an earlier one; when I came back to it, it showed as having been "marked as duplicate by Steven Stadnicki, Community". I've never seen the Community bot mark duplicates before; is this new behavior? What triggers it?
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13$\begingroup$ Hover your mouse over the "Community" text and it says "This question's author approved a pending duplicate vote." $\endgroup$ – Rahul Jul 23 '15 at 0:35
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1$\begingroup$ D'oh. I completely missed that; thank you! $\endgroup$ – Steven Stadnicki Jul 23 '15 at 0:40
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For ease of future reference I quote a part of the announcement New UI encourages askers to confirm or dispute duplicate votes below.
[T]he banner shown to askers whose questions have attracted at least one duplicate close vote has a couple of ... options:
If the author clicks the first button, they're shown a confirmation that clarifies the results of this action somewhat:
If they click "Ok", the question is instantly closed:
If, instead, they edit, they'll be offered this guidance:
...and once an edit is submitted the choice will go away until another duplicate close-vote is cast.
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4$\begingroup$ The use of "Community" here is quite misleading. It should instead say "Author". $\endgroup$ – Bill Dubuque Dec 10 '16 at 18:21
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