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If the question was locked because it's a duplicate, I understand and agree with that. But it wasn't locked for being a duplicate; it was locked for being an of

• viraptor 14y ago
  There's a subtle problem with closing questions - basically there's a list to choose from and you can't always express exactly why you made that choice. Even when people agree on closing a question I can often see a wide spread of chosen options. If you read into the FAQs / standards for questions, this one may not be off-topic, but is definitely low quality. Seeing the expression "is not considered a good, on-topic question", I would have to agree. If there's no specific option for "it's written in a bad way", then this would be the next natural choice. There's no initial research, no specific list of questions, silly title and a tone that would get edited pretty quickly these days.
  • eswangren 14y ago
    Also, the majority wins, so if two voted to close as a dup and three voted for off topic the. It gets closed as OT.
  • ericb 14y ago
    If being a duplicate is why it is being closed, a search must have been done. Could not a link to the other offerings be given instead? Failing that, saying it is because of duplication?
    • viraptor 14y ago
      That's not the reason. All the posts listed above were actually created later ('09, '10) than the one from the main thread ('08). It's just a question that doesn't match the SO guidelines. It's not really bad, but it could be phrased better. Still - locked is probably better than closed here.
    • Aeons 14y ago
      Actually, take a look at the "Linked" and "Related" columns on the right side.