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I've seen this question Cannot format USB-drive, corrupt? and noted 2 of the answers are the same.

Stephen Jennings's answer (accepted) was answered years agoI know we can mark duplicate posts but Serena has answered recently. The problem is, Serena's answer offers nothing new (IMO it's the same aswhat if the accepted answer).

My question is, if an answer offers nothing new a duplicate because it's a combination of different answers (because it's eitherall from the same as another answer oranswers on the same as mutiple parts of multiple answerspost), then it's clutter... Do? Are we just leave it, close it,still to flag it?

I've seen this question Cannot format USB-drive, corrupt? and noted 2 of the answers are the same.

Stephen Jennings's answer (accepted) was answered years ago but Serena has answered recently. The problem is, Serena's answer offers nothing new (IMO it's the same as the accepted answer).

My question is, if an answer offers nothing new (because it's either the same as another answer or the same as mutiple parts of multiple answers), then it's clutter... Do we just leave it, close it, flag it?

I know we can mark duplicate posts but, what if the answer is a duplicate because it's a combination of different answers (all from the answers on the same post)? Are we still to flag it?

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Do we flag answers which offer nothing new

I've seen this question Cannot format USB-drive, corrupt? and noted 2 of the answers are the same.

Stephen Jennings's answer (accepted) was answered years ago but Serena has answered recently. The problem is, Serena's answer offers nothing new (IMO it's the same as the accepted answer).

My question is, if an answer offers nothing new (because it's either the same as another answer or the same as mutiple parts of multiple answers), then it's clutter... Do we just leave it, close it, flag it?