Timeline for When I flag as dupe, can the system put the link to the answer and not the question?
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| Mar 1, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @CreationEdge: Sorry, what I mean by "we don't have questions like that", is that we don't really have questions that are full of user-generated content that then ask a question about the content they've written. The questions we get here aren't really the same as the ones asked on StackOverflow. Programmers would be closer, since asking about tools/practices/etc would be more similar to asking about books/movies/etc. | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 21:21 | comment | added | user31178 | @Ellesedil Yes, we do, and those are the ones that should be dupes, not others | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @CreationEdge: And I thought you were needlessly obtuse as well. I tried to use a stripped-down, basic example to illustrate my point, which you promptly ignored and then re-branded. In any case, I don't find your example relevant either because just about all of those are pretty much "How do I fix this exception?" They are all asking the same thing with the only difference being some details on how they arrived to that point. We don't really have questions like that here. | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 20:26 | comment | added | user31178 | @Ellesedil That's needlessly obtuse. The Horcrux example is not a logical leap from the "How do I do a basic math problem." They're not at all analogous. There are plenty of same answer == dupe question cases on both SO and SE.Meta. Perfect example is these 691 null pointer exception questions and 303 null reference exceptions many of which with quite distinct issues leading to the problem. | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @CreationEdge: sigh Then I guess every question about horcruxes is really, "How do I read a book, a website, or a twitter feed?" | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 18:34 | comment | added | user31178 | @Ellesedil That's not really a comparable scenario. Say someone asks what 54/9 is, it'd be a dupe of "How do I perform division?" | |
| Mar 1, 2016 at 18:25 | comment | added | Ellesedil | @CreationEdge: Some people but their headers in caps, others put them in proper case. I've never treated a header as "yelling" before. But to play devil's advocate here: if we have a question of what is 3+3 that has an accepted answer of 6, and someone else comes in and asks what is 54/9, is the logical outcome here really that they're duplicate questions? Because that doesn't really make sense. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 6:05 | comment | added | user31178 | I don't feel this feature request is necessary, either, but your bold (yelling) intro paints a black and white picture that I disagreed with. (And calling our stack wrong, when I don't think we normally do things as you've ascribed). It's a very combative way of addressing the issue, and really introduces a new issue (when closing for dupe is abused). I think that other issue definitely needs to be addressed, with links to existing problem questions if possible, so we can reopen them. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 5:49 | comment | added | Martha | @CreationEdge: I agree that two questions that are essentially asking the same thing could be worded very differently. However, this feature request is only possible because people have an incorrect idea about what "close as duplicate" means. To put it another way, if the questions are so different that you have to resort to pointing at one particular answer in order for the "duplication" to be evident, that means that there is no duplication. | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 3:51 | comment | added | user31178 | Also, see How should duplicate questions be handled?: "When are two questions considered duplicates? Basically, questions are duplicates if they have the same (potential) answers. This includes not only word-for-word duplicates, but also the same idea expressed in different words." | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 3:50 | comment | added | user31178 | I think the way we enforce this is more nuanced than your summary judgment makes this seem. We generally close as duplicate for questions where the answer is the same because they're really the same question in a different dress, or one question encompasses the other (and it does indeed also answer the question). | |
| Feb 28, 2016 at 2:47 | comment | added | Martha | @randal'thor: I mean exactly what I said. SFF gets this wrong, and the fact that you've been getting it wrong for many years doesn't change the fact that it's wrong. Conceptually, the practice is no better than pointing an asker at a lengthy journal article and saying "your answer's in there somewhere", which is why most other SE sites have explicit guidance against it. That, plus it's singularly unfriendly to askers. | |
| Feb 27, 2016 at 15:54 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | In your first paragraph, what do you mean by "wrong"? Consensus in the SFF.SE community for as long as I've been here has been that answers do make questions duplicates - if question A is answered by one of the answers to question B, then A is a dupe of B (this is even supported by the text in the dupe-banner, "This question already has an answer here") - so by what definition is it "wrong" to follow this rule? | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 18:52 | comment | added | Valorum Mod | I've actually spent a considerable amount of time de-duping all the Star Wars canon questions. It's such a shame all that effort was wasted... :-) | |
| Jun 11, 2015 at 17:34 | history | answered | Martha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |