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No, The trend I noticed starting years ago, which according to various articles Ive seen is now complete and institutionalized there, is that: High ranked mod/
by everyone 7y ago
No, The trend I noticed starting years ago, which according to various articles Ive seen is now complete and institutionalized there, is that:
High ranked mod/troll types, who seem to spend all day there trying to get more karma for some reason, constantly cruise for new questions. They dont know much about programming in general, and have zero knowledge of my specialist field for example. If they see a question that superficialy resembles or shares certain keywords with another one they will close it as being answered already (pretty much acting like particularly dumb bots) even if it has nothing to do with the existing question, or if the existing question is massively out of date and irrelevant because of updates to the software in question.
- lordnacho 7y agoYou may have a point there. It happens quite often that I google for something, and the article containing the answer is marked closed or off-topic.
- patrick5415 7y agoYes. Some of the best, most valuable questions and answers are closed for pedantic reasons.
- chessturk 7y agoI upvoted you and the gp, but I also would like to point out that the useful answer often still arrives before the pendatic closure. Some of my own questions followed that route, without being dupe questions and while being a code-based success or fail state. The closure of tickets is detrimental to the site, but somehow, it's still worth asking a question.