Timeline for Is there any way to help mitigate the number of duplicate answers on SuperUser?
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| May 10, 2020 at 21:01 | comment | added | user1061912 | Excellent observation. +1 | |
| Jul 26, 2018 at 3:06 | comment | added | Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style | Can I get a downvote.... Amen Hallelujah!!! | |
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| Jan 4, 2016 at 17:59 | answer | added | Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Dec 31, 2015 at 13:34 | comment | added | Ramhound | @LMFAO_A_JOKE - My point is that most people for that very reason will pick the option that will keep their question "alive" once they understand this "system: of allowing the author decided if the duplicate is a duplicate instead of allowing the people answering the question decide if its already been answered. IN other words the author, by the very fact they are asking the question, isn't in a position to decide if the question is a duplicate or not. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 13:33 | comment | added | Ramhound | @LMFAO_A_JOKE - The problem with your idea is that, everyone feels their problem is unique, even though it isn't. We get hundreds of questions on how to remove malware here at Superuser, we have one question the community has spent a great deal of time answering, nearly all questions about how to remove malware is a duplicate of that single question. There is not a small percent of question authors, who ask how to remove a specific infection, that claims that despite that question having a combined knowledge of the community on how to remove malware, that that canonical question isn't helpful | |
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| Dec 31, 2015 at 3:07 | comment | added | allquixotic | Your post starts out as if you're interested in somehow reducing the number of dupe questions, but then you go completely off the rails on a rant and offer no good solutions or any coherent reasoning whatsoever, instead sharing your apparent perception that most dupe close votes are incorrect and unhelpful. While I am not in any way defending bad close vote practices, I don't think that complaining about it is especially constructive, and my experience is that a majority of duplicate close votes are "legit"; i.e., the question being asked is exactly the same as in another question. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 2:43 | comment | added | Psycogeek | I am with you on this, they should forget the backup (one day) and hard drive dies and start the whole thing over again from Zero Q&As. People can keep the rep they have and all fresh new answers for everyone :-) There have been people who specified in their question the answers that do not work for them, in lists of fails even :-) If you have been here long enough you would see everything really is a dupe, it is just asked a little differently. And NO! people do not always search, , and people do not nessisarily know what to search for, or they might not even ask anything :-) | |
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