Timeline for Duplicate Question, where the answer is the same, but the question differs slightly
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| Dec 5, 2011 at 12:27 | comment | added | Rook | @Paul - Couldn't say ... | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 12:12 | comment | added | Paul | @Idigas I think you'll find this with any community site, that different approaches are taken over time to try and steer the path toward the site increasing in value as a resource. Sometimes those changes are for the better, sometimes they don't work as intended. This is not a reason to avoid change however. | |
| Dec 5, 2011 at 3:10 | comment | added | Paul | @Idigas - it isn't a policy, but it seemed close enough to consider closing. We are a community that is creating a resource of information and we all (I hope) want the overall value of the site to increase over time, rather than decrease. This one of the purposes of meta, to allow us to come to a conclusion. The difficulty I have is that when searching for answers to my own questions, I often find multiple similar questions and answers, and having to trawl through them represents a decrease in value. Discussing these things is the only avenue we have to make them better. | |
| Dec 2, 2011 at 18:32 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | If your question were to be closed, it wouldn't be to punish you or something like that. While a big percentage of closed questions in a user's profile is a bad sign, the occasional duplicate or borderline on/off topic question is pretty common. We'd be closing one of these questions to keep order. The site has reached a stage where, while your issue is different enough from the other user's, it might make sense to create a reference topic on finding duplicate files. We'd probably need to heavily edit the other question (I mean, seriously, file name and size only?) in order to merge them. | |
| Dec 1, 2011 at 23:26 | history | answered | Rook | CC BY-SA 3.0 |