Timeline for Merging answers of duplicate questions
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 19, 2011 at 18:53 | vote | accept | soandos | ||
| Aug 19, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @Ivo I don't think what you said is correct -- merging leaves both questions but just moves the answers, per blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/06/improved-question-merging | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 2:03 | answer | added | randomMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:57 | history | edited | randomMod |
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| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | In this case, I think merging might be appropriate. Unfortunately, I'm on my way out the door, so somebody else will have to do that or you'll have to wait a bit. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:28 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod |
In most cases, the duplicate already has plenty of good answers, or is not quite an exact duplicate, so the migrated answers wouldn't quite make sense. For some examples of merged questions, a quick google search for site:superuser.com merged by reveals some results.
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| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:26 | comment | added | soandos | Got it. Why is this so rarely done? | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:25 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | When you merge two questions, all answers and comments from the closed question get moved over to the unclosed question. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:24 | comment | added | soandos | I don't follow. You mean all answers get merged into one question, or something else? | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 1:22 | comment | added | nhinkle Mod | @IvoFlipse on the contrary, it can (and sometimes is) done to questions which are 99% identical but not asked by the same person. Check the mod menu - it even says that. However, it's not commonly done, and you must merge the full post - you can't merge just one answer. I can take a look at this one later. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 0:52 | comment | added | soandos | Yes, that is what I mean (edited to reflect that). | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 0:51 | history | edited | soandos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 19, 2011 at 0:50 | comment | added | Ivo Flipse Mod | You mean migrate the answers. Merge is only available to us mods when a user for whatever reason posts two identical posts. Its never used on duplicates (AFAIK) because you won't see the old version anymore. I do agree that our system of handling dupes is clunky, but I don't expect that to change any time soon. | |
| Aug 19, 2011 at 0:43 | history | asked | soandos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |