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Really, the knee-jerk response to every single closed question on SO isn't terribly useful. First off, you can still read the question and vote on answers. Sin
by tikhonj 14y ago
Really, the knee-jerk response to every single closed question on SO isn't terribly useful.
First off, you can still read the question and vote on answers. Since there are already several answers, adding another one would not be very useful anyhow.
Moreover, it's closed as a duplicate. There's an essentially identical question--with essentially the same answer--that's quite a bit older. It makes sense to point people to it so that there's one centralized resource on the topic.
- dhimes 14y agoAs a duplicate of What??? That's always been my question. I've found it beyond dumb that they don't put the thing they want you to go to at that message. And, they should make it look like a link. Just my $0.02.
- tikhonj 14y agoThere's a link at the top of the question, in a gray box. However, I certainly see how it would be useful to have the link in the closed message as well.
- dhimes 14y agoThe thing that says, "Possible duplicate?" Once they confirm it they should change the wording to say "Duplicate" if that's the one they mean. It just looks like it's unfinished this way.