Timeline for "Dupes" accross StackExchange sites - How to treat them?
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| Jul 14, 2016 at 5:39 | answer | added | Nickal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 2:32 | answer | added | Elder Geek | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 11:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/AskUbuntu/status/751372087160410112 | ||
| Jul 2, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | Braiam | @terdon ironically, this specific question doesn't appear either. At least with the UL one you have the symbol spelled out in words which is found ;). | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 22:01 | comment | added | terdon Mod |
In any case, searching for things like -- is hard. If you're not using Google which keeps track of your favorite webpages, or if you're not one of us geeks who hang out on technical sites, searching for what does "--" mean in the command line doesn't immediately bring the right results.
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | Cbhihe | @Braiam: point taken but only for this particular case where I agree that finding the answer was particularly easy. But it is not always like that, as you point out well. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | Braiam | Well, the downvote tooltip says "This question doesn't show research effort...". It ignores intention of the author or otherwise, it just a mean to make sure the OP did it's due homework. I would forgive it if the information was buried or not easily identified (confusing or inaccurate title, for example) but the UL question in this case was in the top of my search results (now's the AU one, due me using the exact title) but he should have find it nonetheless. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | Cbhihe | @Braiam: You're right that any acceptance of a cross-dupe should not be construed as a license for OP not to do its homework prior to posting. But even though I am sitting on the fence here on whether I would actually go for a little bit of overlap (see JacobVlijm's answer) or for terdon's suggestion to actually promote cross posts on all sites where they are on-topic, I definitely would not downvote a thread that is not straight and blatantly a one-site dupe in the traditional sense. I need to think this out. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 18:47 | history | edited | Braiam |
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 18:47 | comment | added | Braiam | Downvote them. Seriously. The fact that we don't have a dupe on AU doesn't mean that you have to create one, less when it's readily available elsewhere, nor that exempt you from searching before asking. | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 18:13 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 17:28 | answer | added | Jacob Vlijm | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 17:08 | answer | added | anonymous2 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 2, 2016 at 17:06 | history | edited | Cbhihe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made the terms of the discussion a little clearer.
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| Jul 2, 2016 at 16:52 | history | asked | Cbhihe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |