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Post notice for a duplicate question

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This question may already have answers:
Create copy of sheet and rename with todays date +4 days (2 answers)

Answer box

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For testing purposes, I posted an answer with random characters and deleted it immediately. In the Beta, I can't see the deleted answer, but in Classic shows as follows

Deleted answer

This is not only happening to questions closed as duplicates. At least this looks like it's happening to a question that was closed because it needs debugging details. This time I didn't post an answer.

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    I would love for this to be a bug, but part of me fears that you may have just discovered a new "feature" that they forgot announcing. Commented 2 days ago
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    Why are we all debugging this atrocity for the company? They rolled out a half-baked alpha that we all don't want and now we're doing their jobs for them making it half way usable. Commented 2 days ago
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    How is this not checked on the server side? Link to prove question is a dupe despite the "may have an answer" typical-for-SO-Inc weasel wording stackoverflow.com/questions/79895043/… Commented 2 days ago
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    Perhaps the beta has a separate, buggy backend, on the same database. Commented 2 days ago
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    @pilchard to be fair, I am just reading these posts and eating popcorn as I do. No plan to browse the meta Commented 2 days ago
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    I thought duplicates don't allow answers because they are closed, not because they are dupes. Does this apply to all closed questions? Commented 2 days ago
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    @MisterMiyagi: Yes, it seems that beta allows to answer any closed question, not just duplicate. E.g. on that page beta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79896986/… it is clearly written "... not accepting new replies", but the answer box is still available. Commented 2 days ago
  • I note the change in wording in the beta version. "MAY already have answers here". VS "This question already has answers here". May be a coincidence, but it does very much look like that a dupe closure has been morphed into a simple "look here as well" post linkage feature. Commented 2 days ago
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    I just tested the answer box on @Tsyvarev's link. It works. :( stackoverflow.com/posts/79896986/timeline Commented 2 days ago
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    That's really not what I expected "The […] question closure will not be a part of the initial release" to mean... Commented 2 days ago
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    I understand that as "Not all aspects, related to questions closing, will correctly be implemented in beta's initial release". Commented 2 days ago
  • @MisterMiyagi, apparently, this is happening to questions closed for other reasons as well. Commented 2 days ago
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    @Wicket almost seems like they just removed closures. Commented 2 days ago

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