We've had some discussion recently about the quality of the questions asked on the site, and one point that has been raised is that many simplistic questions are asked repeatedly, generating a large number of duplicates.
When I see a question I think is a dupe, I tend to do a quick site search to see if I can find a good candidate to offer up for a "Close as Dupe" vote, but this can be time-consuming and I'm sure that I'm not always picking the best option.
Given this, would it make sense to have a curated list (perhaps managed by the moderators) that would essentially be an FAQ list of some of the most common questions with pointers to existing threads on the site that answer these questions that we could use as a first point of reference when we see potential duplicates? It seems to me that if we had such a list handy, we could close these duplicated more quickly and more accurately, and redirect people to the best existing threads more regularly.