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The reason is the text of the questions, which is what people type into the Google search bar. Documentation never has questions worded in the way people would
by fragsworth 9y ago
The reason is the text of the questions, which is what people type into the Google search bar. Documentation never has questions worded in the way people would commonly ask it.
For this reason, I wish they would allow redundant questions to be asked, if the phrasing is even slightly different. But the rule-mongering mods always remove it if they can.
- stable-point 9y agoPerhaps SO could include the titles of questions marked as duplicate somewhere in the markup so that Google indexes it?
- icebraining 9y agoWhich is exactly what they do: Should duplicates be deleted? In general, no: most duplicates stay around. Having multiple copies of the same question with different wording is useful as search fodder, because people looking for an answer may use different wording too. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-du...
- fragsworth 9y agoThat's good to see that they actually have the right rules, but I've used it many times where my questions were closed simply for appearing similar to others (when I did not even find the others in my search results). I suppose the mods can be overzealous.
- icebraining 9y agoBeing closed is not the same as being deleted.
- posterboy 9y agoI didn't think dupes on SO were removed, rather they are marked duplicate, linked to the original and closed, precisely because of discovery.