Timeline for Random is closing questions as duplicates that should not be closed.
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/
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| Jun 19, 2011 at 22:43 | history | edited | studiohackMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2011 at 22:13 | history | locked | randomMod | ||
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | Carl | He wants EasyTether to reconnect when the connection drops. He wants to know what is available so he can write a script to get EasyTether to reconnect, and to check if there's a connection. It doesn't need clarified. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:29 | comment | added | Darth Android | @Carl Indeed, it does. It's not clear what exactly he wants. It sounds like he wants a script, in which case the question would be closed as off-topic or migrated to stack overflow. Probably closed as off-topic since neither community is here to write scripts for people. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:27 | comment | added | Carl | The original question doesn't need edited. Do you not understand it? (It's not my question.) | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | Darth Android | @Carl There's an edit button. The original question should be edited, and then it can be reopened. Duplicates do not need to be created for any reason. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | Darth Android | @Scott It's being downvoted because people agree with the moderators' decisions, most likely, and do not see them as a problem for which they need to answer. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:17 | comment | added | Carl | BrianErikson, who posted the original question, attempted a repost (this topic), clarifying the question, which was closed as a duplicate. THAT SAYS IF YOU GET IT WRONG THE FIRST TIME, TO BAD - YOU CAN'T EVER FIX IT. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:16 | answer | added | nhinkleMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:13 | answer | added | randomMod | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:13 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | What is with the sudden swarm of negative votes on the main question? it went from +2 to -3? | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:00 | comment | added | slhck | @Carl That's why there's a function called "editing", which allows you to add new info to a question of yours. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 21:00 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | @Kyle I agree (i even up voted you) However the issue is without telling the OP what he did wrong in the original question and letting him know the correct thing to do is edit it instead of opening a new question he will just keep opening new questions as he does not understand the problem. 99% of the time I close without comment (I have > 3k on SO) but if you are just pointing to another closed question with no explanation on what to do the only thing that will happen is hurt feelings and another question opened. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:57 | comment | added | Carl | No, it is not legitimately a dupe. It has new info, plus the original closure was in error. I have posted a complaint about studiohack closing the original question as "not a question" (it is!) here: meta.superuser.com/questions/2749/… | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:45 | comment | added | Supercereal | Don't be angry at Random on this one he legitimately closed a dupe... Maybe studiohack made a mistake and that needs to be addressed as a separate issue. Either way Random didn't close the original question he simply closed a duplicate, I'm sure anyone 3k+ would have voted to do the same. The intent wasn't to stifle your original question, it was just to remove duplicates. I already voted to reopen your original question... just give the process time. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:36 | comment | added | slhck | @Scott I guess it was closed as a duplicate because the OP said it was one. The normal way is to go and edit your old question instead of posting a duplicate. You can't blame @Random for that. My problem with the OP is that he engages in insulting behavior instead of just asking why the question was closed. Although I think a comment from @studiohack would have been nice, it's not mandatory. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:30 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain |
Per the FAQ:Questions that are deemed sufficiently off-topic may be closed by the community. Users with 3000 reputation can cast up to 24 close votes per day. When a question reaches 5 close votes, it is marked as closed, and will no longer accept answers. Closed questions may be opened by casting reopen votes in the same manner. However, you can only vote to close or reopen a question once. If I was a brand new user with 1 rep that does not, to me, say "Go edit your question and it may be reopened", it just says, "you may get lucky and it could get reopened" I would not know I could edit.
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| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:29 | comment | added | Scott Chamberlain | @slhck Don't you think the mod should have said that in the second post instead of just closing it and making it look like (to me at least) that he just did a quick search found the same title, and closed it without thinking. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 20:14 | comment | added | slhck | "nothing can be done with the original question as it is closed" No, it can be edited by the OP and reopened by a mod. | |
| Jun 19, 2011 at 19:53 | history | asked | Scott Chamberlain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |