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I find the majority of SO questions in search results have been wrongly closed as duplicates
by rozab 6y ago
I find the majority of SO questions in search results have been wrongly closed as duplicates
- Retric 6y agoYep, I generally remove SO from my searches because of how many useless closed as duplicates questions find their way into search results. If they want to moderate like that fine, just delete the dupe questions.
- ceejayoz 6y agoDupes have their uses - they do a pretty good job of ensuring a wider variety of Google searches lead to the answer. Basically, a built in “this paragraph is a synonym for this other one”.
- Retric 6y agoThat’s really not been my experience. I find the non duplicate question is normally somewhat related but not actually useful, being subtly different or quite old etc. That said while SO has been effectively useless to me for years, if you find it’s helpful then more power to you.
- dreamcompiler 6y agoThe most useful answers I find on SO tend to be marked "closed; off-topic." Thank goodness for the off-topics and the dupes.