Timeline for Why is the close-as-duplicate policy so aggressive, and should we change it?
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| Jun 14, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @Izkata I've found that to be true in most (if not all) cases where we've closed questions as answer-dupes. That's really the reason why an answer to one question is also an answer to the other: both questions are asking the same thing, but often coming at it from different angles | |
| Jun 14, 2015 at 15:01 | comment | added | Martha | @Izkata: that sort of closure is only valid if, like curiousdannii said, you write a canonical question and answer, and close both questions as duplicates of it. But if it's not actually a frequently asked question, closing older questions as duplicates of a newer question can come off as... unfair. (Yes, I know that the party line is "closing as dupe isn't a bad thing", but for the asker, it IS a bad thing, because it means they lose control of their question: they can't accept the answer that helped them the most.) | |
| Jun 14, 2015 at 5:02 | comment | added | curiousdannii | @Izkata Or better still ask that parent question yourself and close the other as duplicates of it. | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 3:55 | comment | added | Izkata | A note on your first example under type 2: I agree with that one, but only because of something you didn't get into. Those two questions are very tightly related to a possible parent question ("Who does Bellatrix have feelings for?"), which is why I think it's okay to mark them as duplicates of each other, as long as an answer addresses both the original questions. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 21:52 | comment | added | Martha | Only your type 1 is actually a valid definition of duplication. Otherwise, we're no better than the old, dark days of the internet, pre-StackExchange, where if you wanted an answer to your question, you had to read a bunch of threads on a bunch of message boards, and even then weren't sure that the answer you found was one that the experts agreed with. | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 16:57 | history | answered | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |