The fact of the matter is that, when doing research on all kinds of non-trivial issues, it's routine to come across a StackOverflow question about this exact th

The fact of the matter is that, when doing research on all kinds of non-trivial issues, it's routine to come across a StackOverflow question about this exact thing that was erroneously closed as duplicate of something that it's not, and it's clear that the people who did close it didn't have the expertise to judge. I'm sure mods well and truly believe that what they are doing is for the greater good, and I can even believe that the bulk of questions that are closed really are dupes etc. But there are a lot of babies getting thrown out with the bathwater even so, and the net result is that SO is less useful overall