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In those cases it's easy enough to just move on to another question rather than shut down the discussion. It's not like anyone's being forced to answer.
by dotnet00 3y ago
In those cases it's easy enough to just move on to another question rather than shut down the discussion. It's not like anyone's being forced to answer.
- the_jeremy 3y agoBut as an answerer, you will empathize more with the other answerers than the askers. You don't want the other answerers to also waste their time on this question, so you close it / downvote / mark it as duplicate.
- d0mine 3y agoThe primary (95+%) use case for Stack Overflow is being the destination for a web search. "Bad" questions make signal/noise ratio worse.
- bhandziuk 3y agoBut by being closed as a duplicate with the duplicate linked hundreds of future askers who arrive at that question in the future from a search engine are saved the trouble.
- dotnet00 3y agoThe posts being discussed are cases where the question is marked as duplicate for being vaguely similar but not actually the same. Of course marking literal duplicates as duplicates is fine.