Timeline for Don't be too eager to answer a question you know the answer of
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 8, 2018 at 16:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| May 9, 2018 at 15:07 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 12, 2016 at 18:55 | answer | added | Thomas Yun | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 23, 2015 at 13:11 | comment | added | Braiam | @Dogbert as I said before "questions are supposed to be timeless", ie. if the same thing is done differently on different versions, a single question covering them all is recommended. | |
| Aug 22, 2015 at 20:55 | comment | added | Cloud | There are also times where version/release-specific nuances arise, and the new "duplicate" answer is more relevant, but this is not immediately obvious. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 7:45 | comment | added | FreeSoftwareServers | A lot of times a question is marked duplicate and the duplicate solves the "wider" question and obviously that specific question, but as far as networking the site goes and helping get answers to specific questions, does it hurt to both mark as duplicate, link to the proper question usually with lots of long complicated answers and then just a simple answer to the question with out a lot of the details in the linked post | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 13:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/632901701687734272 | ||
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:45 | comment | added | Braiam | Hear, hear | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:22 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @Braiam I realize at the same time, marking as duplicate is a delicate thing, and IMO (probably) the most misused and misunderstood close reason of all. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:19 | comment | added | Braiam | The flip side of the coin is marking as duplicated something that objetively isn't. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:14 | comment | added | Pilot6 | Oh, I did not know that!! That is what I've been looking for. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm |
@Pilot6 btw, there is an easy way to find dupes of your own: in the search box, type: <keyword> user:me is:a. All your posts with the keyword will pop up instantly. Another quick way is that of many of my posts I more or less remember the votes.
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:07 | comment | added | Pilot6 | But if someone finds a better answer than I give, it will be helpful to mark a question as a duplicate. This is the whole point of helping each other. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @Pilot6 Too bad, none of your answers were the occasion for my question :) | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 21:03 | comment | added | Pilot6 | If it is my answer, I do not mind to make it personal. In some cases it is easier to answer than to search. And I can't recall a case when I copied someone else's answer. I do copy mine a lot, because I do not remember how the question was named and a fast search does not give a result. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 20:57 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @Pilot6 I really rather wouldn't. That would make it personal instantly. What I have in mind are mostly the situations when questions are marked, when I am pretty sure the answers are mostly based on the answer(s) the answerer found on AU, or when I am pretty sure the answerer knows the original is (very) easy to find. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | Pilot6 | I never post answers when I see that the question is marked as a dupe and the link is really good. Can you give an example? Maybe I think about other cases than you do. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 20:48 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @Pilot6 If a q/a is so hard to find, either the title of the original is unclear, the tags are incorrect or another reason makes it hard to find. I would consider that categorie "unavoidable". This is therefore not a plea for an endless search before posting an answer. A different situation is when a question was recently asked, is easy to find and/or a (duplicate) answer was posted after the question was marked as a dupe. IMO experience then brings the responsibility to let the quality of acting prevail over the eagerness to "jump in and score", increasing the amount of duplicated info. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 20:28 | comment | added | Pilot6 | The problem is that it is not always easy to find a good answer. Yes, I do post answers, when I know that a better or a similar answer exists somewhere. But in most cases I do that when I can't find that good answer. If you can find it, just mark it as a duplicate. I see no serious harm in posting this kind of duplicate answers. It gives more chance to be found and gives a fast solution to OP. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 19:59 | history | edited | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 17:33 | history | edited | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 14:16 | history | asked | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |