Timeline for answer to Do you agree with Gergely that "Stack Overflow is almost dead"? by queeg
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| Apr 9 at 16:29 | comment | added | 463035818_is_not_an_ai | You are arguing as if closing as duplicate would be a punishment for the asker, to penalize them for not finding the answer themself. While thats not the actual intention of duplicate closures I could understand when someone perceives it as such. Do you? I am still trying to understand your point. Why does it matter wether the asker was able to find the existing Q&A once someone else did that for them?`Why should a question not be closed as duplicate when an existing answer solves their problem? (its not just rethorical questions) | |
| Apr 9 at 15:20 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | @queeg Solutions to what? Your problem isn’t clear to me. You talk about the mechanism of duplicate closure, yet that seems to already do what you want. Do you have a problem with some culture around duplicate closure? Say, people thinking duplicates are not useful and downvoting them? | |
| Apr 9 at 15:12 | comment | added | queeg | I used to come here to find solutions. Now this is a why why why... I'll stop now. | |
| Apr 9 at 15:09 | comment | added | MisterMiyagi | @queeg Why does it matter whether the asker makes the connection? The entire point of duplicate closure is to make that connection for them, as well as making it simpler for others to find the issue with the duplicate's way of asking. | |
| Apr 9 at 15:06 | comment | added | queeg | If the question describes the same symptoms the asker might have found it via search, and tagging a duplicate makes sense. If the symptoms look different, how would an asker ever make the connection? Here it looks unfriendly to the asker as it is only obvious to the responders. | |
| Apr 9 at 10:47 | comment | added | 463035818_is_not_an_ai | in other words: "I would not classify such questions as duplicates" why not? | |
| Apr 9 at 10:46 | comment | added | 463035818_is_not_an_ai | I totally agree that slightly different questions can have the same answer, but its still the same answer, the same root cause as you call it. Closing questions as duplicate is a measure to have answers that adress the same root case in one place rather than scattered around. I think the way this is done can be improved, but you seem to argue that pointing an asker to an already existing answer and preventing others to write answers that already exist would be bad, and that is what I do not understand. | |
| Mar 31 at 6:53 | comment | added | queeg | The questions describe symptoms, the answers root causes. Would you acknowledge that different symptoms may have the same cause? I would not classify such questions as duplicates. | |
| Mar 26 at 12:49 | comment | added | 463035818_is_not_an_ai | "Google or the SO help would never pointed me there" why is that relevant once someone did point you to a duplicate? I totally agree that the process can be improved, but I dont understand the point you raise about duplicates. You acknowledge that an existing answer fits your question. Ok. Problem solved, no? | |
| Mar 8 at 13:07 | history | answered | queeg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |