Timeline for Opinions on downvoting duplicate questions
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 15:17 | history | edited | Braiam |
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| Jun 9, 2016 at 15:17 | answer | added | Braiam | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 19:16 | comment | added | TallChuck | Oh okay well it says "We’d love to help you, but the reality is that not every question gets answered. To improve your chances, here are some tips:" and displays a search bar and says "Have you thoroughly searched for an answer before asking your question?" and below that says to be on topic, be specific, make it relevant to others, keep an open mind, and some explanation on each of those, and finally has a checkbox saying "thanks, I will keep these tips in mind when asking" before it lets you through to be able to ask your question | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 7:40 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | @TallChuck Is that just for first timers? I don't get that. Perhaps because of the automatic 101 rep? | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 5:05 | comment | added | TallChuck | I like the setup on Stack Overflow (by far the largest Stack Exchange site). When you click the "Ask Question" button, it brings up stackoverflow.com/questions/ask/advice explaining that you should search for your question before asking a new question. This hopefully discourages people from bogging down the site with so many duplicate questions. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 23:16 | history | edited | Videonauth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 23:14 | answer | added | Videonauth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I agree there are times when a lack of research is obvious and these deserve downvotes but not all are bad, some are well written and the duplicates, at a glance can be quite different or the solutions are the same but the questions different. I think the issue is more the lack of context on the votes rather than the votes there self. I just feel a bit bad for them really, we have all been to those horrible forums where you get shot down for even daring to ask a question. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 20:53 | comment | added | Seth Mod | I don't downvote something just because it is a duplicate, but I may if it is a low quality one. For example, someone asked in chat recently "how to add directory to my path", I punched their exact sentence into Google and the first result was a good AU post. I would have downvoted that if it were a question. It is also worth noting that this is the internet. There are a lot if people here. Some will take a different view. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 20:41 | history | asked | Mark Kirby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |