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Some people when receiving "Possible duplicate" comment (if someone voted to close the question as a duplicate), take it personally and put angry comments, that historically their question was asked first, and shouldn't be closed.
Lack of clarity causes new questions to be raised such as Shouldn't the newer questions be marked as duplicate and not the earlier ones?

It will be good to add information/help icon (i) with the link to a clarification page to be like

Possible duplicate (i) of Generic TryParse

or just make Possible duplicate clickable

Possible duplicate of Generic TryParse

The clarification page can be meta question Should I vote to close a duplicate question, even though it's much newer, and has more up to date answers? or a new service center help page with a similar content.

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    I disagree adding this to the comment. However, this can be added to the banner only the OP can see Commented Aug 3, 2016 at 12:45
  • @ShadowWizard: I prefer to have help link visible to everyone, who is curious what "possible duplicate" means. But explanation to author of closing question is better than nothing. You can write your idea as an answer. Commented Aug 4, 2016 at 12:44
  • @ShadowWizard, Please see an example stackoverflow.com/questions/6676245/… ,that not only authors need explanation, why date is not essential, when determine a duplicate Commented Aug 8, 2016 at 12:28
  • Well, since you also offer a way without any noise (linking existing text) this might not be a bad idea. Commented Aug 8, 2016 at 12:35
  • I’m going to add two points here. First the word “duplicate” may be confusing. In English, the original is not normally regarded as a duplicate, so marking an earlier question as such is definitely going generate some dissent. Second, I see too many questions which are not real duplicates, but have been marked as such by someone who doesn’t understand the difference — maybe the software version, or the actual point question; maybe the question wasn’t answered, or only incidentally buried in another answer. </endrant> Commented May 31 at 23:44

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