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Voting to close is the process by which users can vote to close a question as off-topic or otherwise disallowed by the FAQ.

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Closing a question as a duplicate of another - when you've answered the duplicate question

For the part of the question of how this might be seen by an average user, as a fairly average user myself, I'd simply think "Clive knew that this question had already been asked because he remembered …
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