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Unfortunately, the rule of no duplicate questions also destroyed lots of questions that weren't duplicates... because _someone_ couldn't be bothered to read the

Unfortunately, the rule of no duplicate questions also destroyed lots of questions that weren't duplicates... because _someone_ couldn't be bothered to read them and realize it wasn't the same. Plus, there were a lot of fun questions they were really interesting to start with; and they stopped allowing them.

jamesfinlayson 8mo ago
Yes, this. I've asked a couple of questions where the only responses are from people saying "possible dupe of x" where x is something that has a couple of the same words but no relation to what I'm asking.
- taneq 8mo ago
  Turns out if you design a forum where a high effort, high quality post can be devalued by a low effort response, you discourage high effort, high quality posters.
  - ted_bunny 8mo ago
    This is where we need SO's "The Answer" feature, whatever they called it. Never seen it distilled so well.