Timeline for My questions were closed as duplicates. How come?
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| Apr 20, 2014 at 8:20 | comment | added | Indrek | @x-yuri It seems pretty straightforward to me. A duplicate question is one that has been answered before. Says so right on the label that gets applied automatically. The questions you posted had been answered before (as evidenced by the fact that the majority of your own answers were direct quotations from existing ones), ergo they were duplicates. So that's why I voted to close them as such. As with Sathya, the fact that you posted three dupes in a row was also a contributing factor. Please understand that this is nothing personal, though - simply the way the community self-moderates. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 5:18 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | I've nothing to add, @x-yuri. Allq has mentioned the pertinent points. Honestly i thought the questions were general reference material, but since you'd already copy-pasted quoted answers( and not one, 3 in a row), I'd closed it as duplicate to leave a pointer to those who come via search | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 2:07 | comment | added | Ramhound | @x-yuri - I think you don't understand the problem. Those 3 questions should have never been asked in the first place. You shouldn't be asking questions and then trying to quote an answer from Superuser. If you are doing that, it means the question has already been answered, even if the title of the already existing question could be changed to better reflect the actual question. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | x-yuri | I'm trying to understand what I'm doing wrong, so I edited the answers to know if they're fine now. The main thing that's left I take it is whether I'm quoting too much. | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | x-yuri | I've specified actual problems I was facing in my questions. You can take a look and see if the questions meet the standard now. To be honest, one of the questions is semi-actual, that is: "What would it be if I were in that situation?". Also, some of the answers are probably incomplete. But somebody else can contribute to my answers, or answer themselves, can't they? As to Sathya, how am I supposed to ask him? And it's not that your answer isn't satisfactory. If Sathya has something to add, I'm all ears :) | |
| Apr 20, 2014 at 1:02 | comment | added | allquixotic | I no longer have much suspicion of your motives, after seeing your comments here and in the questions you asked. However, if my answer here isn't satisfactory to you as a reason why your questions were closed, I would suggest you ask Sathya, the moderator who closed them (after the close votes were first registered by another user, Indrek, but that initial non-moderator vote was not sufficient to close the question). Sathya is impartial in my dealings with him, so I assume he can provide a better reason. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | x-yuri | As such, I searched for questions asking these exact things, but there were none, so I decided to create corresponding questions. You might accuse me of asking questions so that I could easily find answers in the future. But first, I didn't think about that at least consciously. And then, it shouldn't be a bad thing. If it's true, that must be part of the other truth, that it's so that everyone could easily find answers for those questions. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 23:48 | comment | added | x-yuri |
Nevertheless, notion of low quality becomes clearer. Particularly, you might accuse my answers of being of low quality. Because they're mainly quotes. But on the other hand they are good quotes. I can admit I was in a hurry, but rephrasing them wouldn't add much value. And now let's read a little into my activity. I spent a lot of time looking through questions on superuser.com this day, but in the end I had some really interesting pieces of information, and I didn't want this information to be buried in related questions.
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| Apr 19, 2014 at 23:28 | comment | added | x-yuri | First, I believe simple questions are a good thing. They are like unix utilities, which, in spite of being simple, combined together can do really complex stuff. As to being easily googled, do you mind being in first position in google results for some simple questions? As to users being able to find answers to their questions by inspecting, I must stress, related questions. Not a good user experience I must say. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 22:23 | history | answered | allquixotic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |