Recently I came across a question, which was a duplicate of an already asked question here. The duplicate question was downvoted (had a score of -4), but the answers to that duplicate were upvoted (one had a score of 57 as of the time when I'm posting this question, while the top answer on the original question had a score of 18). But then, it is true that the answer was apt, acceptable and deserved upvotes.

I have two questions here, meant only for discussion, and not to criticize anybody.

1. Is it agreeable to see answers to duplicate questions getting higher scores than accepted answers to the question it was marked as a duplicate of?

2. Should the community be so hard on a duplicate question as to downvote it (I agree that the question in question was a simple case of Read the Manual, and had already been asked before), and still upvote answers to the question?

The answers to the above questions, in my opinion are:

1. The answer to the original question deserves a better treatment, as it gets seemingly less attention than the answer for the duplicate.

2. If there was no question, there would be no answer, so blaming the asker but still awarding the answerer seems kind of strange.

Your thoughts, respected community?

Recently I came across a question, which was a duplicate of an already asked question here. The duplicate question had an overall negative score ( of -4), but the answers to that duplicate were upvoted (one had a score of 57 as of the time when I'm posting this question, while the top answer on the original question had a score of 18). But then, it is true that the answer was apt, acceptable and deserved upvotes.

I have two questions here, meant only for discussion, and not to criticize anybody.

1. Is it agreeable to see answers to duplicate questions getting higher scores than accepted answers to the question it was marked as a duplicate of?

2. Should the community be so hard on a duplicate question as to downvote it (I agree that the question in question was a simple case of Read the Manual, and had already been asked before), and still upvote answers to the question?

The answers to the above questions, in my opinion are:

1. The answer to the original question deserves a better treatment, as it gets seemingly less attention than the answer for the duplicate.

2. If there was no question, there would be no answer, so blaming the asker but still awarding the answerer seems kind of strange.

Your thoughts, respected community?