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What's become common for me, when I ask a question, is to have it marked redundant. The response is: "Your question is a repeat of this earlier question." So
by lkrubner 9y ago
What's become common for me, when I ask a question, is to have it marked redundant. The response is:
"Your question is a repeat of this earlier question."
So then I try to point out that I already read that earlier question, and I tried the solution suggested in that earlier solution, but it didn't work for me. All of which I explained in my original post, but the moderators don't seem to read all of what I've written, or they'd already know that. I think they just scan the opening sentences, and if it seems to them to be similar to something else, then my question gets marked redundant.
But when I clarify the situation, no one sees my clarification, because once my question is marked redundant, people stop reading it.
- jxramos 9y agoI remember first getting a question marked duplicate and me plugging in differentiating factors. After time I've come to not view duplicate answer as a pejorative thing but rather as a good catchall structure to bring a locus of related content close together to effectively play the role of "here's an alternate way of asking the same question". This basically expands the keywords and tags that could successfully land a questioner to the answer they seek. After all people oftentimes think of things differently, and to have multiple slightly different means of asking the same question lumped together in some coherent scope, that's a good thing.