If we pointed people to the right direction in the first place, they wouldn't "pollute" issues with comments asking such questions.

This idea came to me while writing #1308176: [meta] Battle plan for stopping spam/"subscribe"/"+1"/"thank you" comments (and cleaning up old ones from the db too). (the suggestion to add "report spam/abuse" links next to the "edit" & "reply" links in comments in specific).

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...perhaps this is a more appropriate project.

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Hmm, I have rarely seen this - it will add a lot of clutter. Is it really worth it?

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...it will add a lot of clutter.

I think it's pointless to argue over that verbally, so here's a screenie of how it could look.

Is it really worth it?

...you can always leave it as is and keep having the issue queues getting "spammed" with the same questions and answers over and over ;)

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that is a great idea and makes a lot of sense to me!

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Closed #540492: add link on patches to help on applying them (filed in the Project issue tracking issue queue) as a duplicate.

#19386: Automatically search for duplicate issues/questions before submitting new issue/question

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... and there's an issue in the right project queue which has a patch here: #619650: Add help text underneath files on how to apply patches that links to documentation.