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Then SO's reasonms for this policy need to be explained more. The aim of SO is to provide answers to a question. You do not want many questions with the same
by pasc1878 3y ago
Then SO's reasonms for this policy need to be explained more.
The aim of SO is to provide answers to a question.
You do not want many questions with the same answer as if you have a new answer or a comment on this duplicate answer you need to then add it to all the questions. Thus we want to collapse all these multiple questions into one.
Also the person who I was replying to did noit seem to understand that they were a moderator, moderators are not a separate set of people to users.
- captaincaveman 3y agoThey are a user, they choose to moderate or not, forcing people in this way to contribute only in a very specific way means, less users ...
- pasc1878 3y agoBut better more consistent data - which is what I want from SO. However SO Inc wants money and so more users.
- _wf2l 3y agocitation needed that it actually provides better more consistent data. all it leads to is a flood of closed articles in Google search results. no curation whatsoever
- pasc1878 3y agoIf a question is closed as a duplicate it provides a link to the question it is a duplicate of and you can see the answer there. You can"t expect the answerer to answer each individual question which is the same, especially as the answer might have been given over 10 yuears ago? What do you expect a good answerer to do with a question asked for the hundredth time?