The problem SO tends to run into is when you have a question that seems like it answers another question on the surface (ie. because the question title is bad)

The problem SO tends to run into is when you have a question that seems like it answers another question on the surface (ie. because the question title is bad) and then a very different question is closed with the dupe reason pointing to that question because the close titles are similar. Since there's no way to appeal duplicate close votes on SO until you have a pretty large amount of rep, this kinda creates a problem where there's a "silent mass" of duplicate questions that aren't really duplicates. A basic example is this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/27957454 https://stackoverflow.com/q/27957454 , which is about disabling PRs on GitHub on the surface. The body text however reveals that the poster is instead asking how they can set up branch permissions and get certain accounts to bypass them. I can already assure you that just by basic searching, this question will pop up first when you look up disabling PRs, and the accepted answer answers the question body (which means that it's almost certain a different question has been closed as a duplicate of this one), rather than the question title. You could give a more informative answer (which kinda happened here), but this is technically off-topic to the question being closed. That's where SO gets it's bad rep for inaccurate duplicate closing from.