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| Aug 16, 2022 at 12:12 | comment | added | E_net4 | @Stranger Such answers likely can and should be posted in the canonical question instead. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 11:55 | comment | added | Syed M. Sannan | @E_net4thecommentflagger and what about the answers to duplicates that actually solve a problem differently and in some cases more efficiently? or what about the ones that have modern practices than the original ones? sometimes dupes are different and useful. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 9:29 | comment | added | E_net4 | @Stranger This site isn't a helpdesk. Your approach of providing a custom answer to every question doesn't scale and disperses equivalent knowledge. Whoever expects a tailored answer every time they ask are by default asking for too much. On the other hand, setting up duplicate targets provides a quick reference to solving a common problem without the issues described. | |
| Aug 16, 2022 at 9:08 | comment | added | Syed M. Sannan | Same, I don't agree with the point of punishing users for answering dupe questions, it at least helps the questioner. I don't care if my answer is to a dupe question, I care about helping the one I have answered to. I only search if it is a duplicate AFTER I have answered them. | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 14:03 | comment | added | NelsonGon | Fair points, I still think maybe rather than punishing the answerer, people should just take more effort to let them know that it's a duplicate and ask them to delete their answer. I honestly don't see a way to solve this issue that is not "harmful" to contributors in the long run. | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | Temani Afif | one could argue are duplicates but they often have a bit of uniqueness --> all the questions are unique but can be reduced to the same issue and closed with the canonical duplicate but most of people are lazy reading duplicate question and only want answer to their question. They don't want to do the effort to read the duplicate question and identify the main issue and then be able to fix their own using the duplicate target. | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 13:54 | comment | added | Temani Afif |
I am following the css tag and already closed almost 2000 questions as duplicate and I can show you a lot of the same question answrered again and again and again with the same answer and the same users. Even in the future the answer will not change because we have canonical duplicate that are updated with new answers. Having 2 or 3 duplicate question is not bad but having 100 duplicate questions dealing with the same issue is not good.
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| Jul 20, 2019 at 13:48 | comment | added | NelsonGon |
I follow the r tag mostly. I'll give an example using two of the most common questions. The first relates to non standard evaluation within the tidyverse. This has been answered so many times in an almost similar way but even if you mark it as duplicate it won't be closed(and rightfully so) because what was true yesterday is not true today. I also think some users will be biased towards more recent answers. The second is to do with reshaping data, pretty common but questions still arise each day that one could argue are duplicates but they often have a bit of uniqueness.
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| Jul 20, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | Temani Afif | these questions are useful because they have different titles : the issue is that most of them have the same title, the same answers, even the same person answering --> those are the problematic duplicates we don't want. | |
| Jul 20, 2019 at 13:32 | history | answered | NelsonGon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |