Timeline for Handling questions that will be duplicates once answered
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| Jul 31, 2018 at 23:07 | vote | accept | RDFozz | ||
| Apr 10, 2018 at 23:15 | comment | added | Martha | @Mazura, "[Rationale for why it should be closed as a duplicate]" - um, it's patently obvious that I believe it SHOULDN'T be closed as a duplicate. Forcing me to answer that in any other way gets into "when did you stop beating your wife" territory. "[Handle questions that will be duplicates once answered]" - again, my answer makes it obvious that I believe there are no such questions. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 23:06 | comment | added | Martha | @Mazura, I have no illusions about my answer helping solve future dilemmas, because there's an entrenched cadre of users here who insist on closing questions at all costs, even if it's blindingly obvious that they're not the same question. But in an ideal world, people would stop themselves somewhere in their increasingly-illogical line of reasoning and say to themselves, "self, this is ridiculous; maybe these aren't duplicate questions after all". | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 22:46 | comment | added | Mazura | What's your "[rationale for why it should be closed as a duplicate]" ? How would you "[handle questions that will be duplicates once answered]" ? Claiming that they're not duplicates sidesteps the question while not answering it. How will the information you provided here help solve future dilemmas? | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 1:44 | comment | added | Martha | @Mazura: eh? I haven't the faintest idea what you're trying to say. Sorry. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 23:37 | comment | added | Mazura | -1 for frame challenging a meta question. | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 7:44 | comment | added | Valorum | @Martha - We'd downvote that answer into hades and probably close it. Good answers should be substantial but should also have focus | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 1:25 | comment | added | user31178 | @Martha That's only true because Google points to here for a great many questions ;) | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | Martha | @Valorum: between them, Wikipedia and Google have the answers to pretty much every question you can come up with, so what's the point of having this site? In other words, just because the answer to "what color is the sky" is contained somewhere in the 14-page essay that answers "why is the sky blue", does not make the latter a good answer to the former. Too much information is just as bad as not enough information. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 19:16 | comment | added | Valorum | @Kutulumike - A one-word answer would not be substantial. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 18:43 | comment | added | user31178 | @KutuluMike But they're both answered by the question "How do I multiply two positive, single-digit integers?", so how does that fit in? | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | KutuluMike | "What is 3 * 4" is not a duplicate of "What is 6 * 2" just because they have exactly the same answer. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 17:39 | comment | added | Valorum | @Martha - If a substantial answer to question A can be moved unaltered to question B and answer it entirely, then what is the point of having two questions? | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 16:14 | comment | added | phantom42 | I think the real problem here is the labeling as "duplicate". Yes, often times, answers on other questions are applicable and cover the necessary information. In those instances, the message in the duplicate alert is correct: "this question already has an answer here", but that doesn't necessarily make the questions duplicates, even though the dupe alerts also claim they're "exact duplicates". | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 15:10 | comment | added | Martha | @Valorum: I know this is more futile head-bashing, but no matter how strongly you believe it or how often you repeat it, answers don't make questions into duplicates. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | Valorum | They're duplicates. An answer to one would be an answer to the other | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 11:02 | comment | added | user68762 | users who claim that those two questions are different are right, same way one claiming there is an infinite amount of diff nums between 0.1 - 0.2 would be right. No Q is an exact dupe of another. when i mark a Q a dupe i don't mean 'b is exactly the same as a' rather 'those two questions are similar enough, one of them should be closed'. as by our current standards a good answer should be supported by logical reasoning and the evidence provided needs to be relevant and sufficient. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 20:48 | history | answered | Martha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |