Timeline for Closed question information blurb seems -- wrong/confusing?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 13:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 14:43 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added short answer
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 1:22 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Even in the case where they would ask the exact same question, if the original question is old, it has stopped attracting answers, and people shouldn't have to post a bounty to get an answer if the existing answers don't help. Let them re-ask the question and get some fresh eyes on it. Sometimes the old answers limit thinking and a blank slate can trigger new answers. We can always merge it later. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 16:11 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Flip side of the issue: should the 1st person to ask a question have a permanent lock on the issue just because they asked 1st? It's better not to have redundant questions, but it's more important to attract a broader range of answers if we can. Sometimes minor wording changes can lead to a different line of answers. If a re-asked question turns out to be a true duplicate, it can be merged. But if someone looks at the existing answers and they aren't helpful, a bounty or tweaking the older question isn't likely to be fruitful for them. But it can help to focus and differentiate theirs. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 13:07 | comment | added | Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 | "Bounties are good when you find a question that has not received a good answer and it is already worded well to accurately describe what you, also, would like answered." Often users can't/don't find the duplicates on their own, we have to point them out. When we do that, this information/suggestion is never conveyed to the user, instead they're told to just post a new question, and then they say "Well, I did". this is essentially the crux of my confusion. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 | Ok so someone comes along and says "How do I do XYZ?" and we point them to another question that is "How do I do XYZ?" of equal quality, yet the answers that exist on that question are not that great. Is that not still a duplicate question? If it is, then the blub seems completely misleading. | |
| Aug 25, 2015 at 4:19 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added point about reopening
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| Aug 25, 2015 at 0:15 | history | answered | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |