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The questions were pretty radically different. The other question just happened to contain the answer to mine. So mine provides a valuable link for people askin
by mlangdon 13y ago
The questions were pretty radically different. The other question just happened to contain the answer to mine. So mine provides a valuable link for people asking the question I was asking while needing the answer to that other previously ungoogleable-by-the-terms-of-my-question question.
Basically, if you weren't thinking of my question in terms of "recursion" you could not find the existing answer.
The new answers also provided specific-to-my-question details.
It's not about personal. To me it's about making the site more searchable, navigable and complete.
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Reply to child post:
I also skew towards answering (about 4 to 1). But on the rare occasion when I can't find an answer and ask a question, I always get this treatment. The presumption is always against the asker. And this has made me less likely to answer questions (this being resentment).
- ethomson 13y agoUnderstandable. I've seen a lot of complaints about SO lately (and indeed they've changed some things in an effort to address some of these issues), but I haven't seen much of this first hand. However I tend to be on the answering side of questions rather than the asking side. I appreciate your further explanation as I try not to propagate these sorts of complaints.
- thedufer 13y agoI guess I don't see the problem. You got your answer from the "duplicate", right? And marking as duplicate gives google the search terms without creating duplicate answers. It sounds like this was exactly the outcome that's beneficial to everyone.