Timeline for The perils of unclear questions and users who answer first and comment later
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| Jul 14, 2012 at 0:55 | comment | added | Bob | Just a note that under certain circumstances (score of 3 or greater, visible for 60 days), reputation is not lost on deletion anyway. | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 19:33 | vote | accept | Excellll | ||
| Jul 13, 2012 at 18:20 | comment | added | James Mertz | I believe that mods can merge the good answers and delete the rest of the junk with the old one. I suggest flagging for deletion anything that isn't worth keeping on the old one. | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 17:56 | comment | added | slhck | Ugh, the old one is a mess. Closing as a dupe of the new one seems like the way to go — but I wouldn't mind deleting obsolete answers from the old one if it's clear that they're not solving the problem at all. Tough call to make though. | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 17:55 | history | edited | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | soandos | @Excellll If the question is just closed then no. If the question is deleted, then yes, they will lose rep (there is a policy of not deleting duplicates because of signposting). | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | Excellll | Okay, but will that remove rep from users who answered the old question? | |
| Jul 13, 2012 at 17:41 | history | answered | soandos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |