Timeline for Do good quality answers on duplicate questions deserve reputation?
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 6:43 | comment | added | Charles Green | I agree with the last sentence of your answer especially - a good answer is simply a good answer. I have seen on occasion that an OP does not recognize duplication, or understand that they may need to adjust an answer to fit their circumstance, and I have also seen answerers on duplicate question make a distinct effort to write very good answers perhaps without realizing that there was a duplicate involved. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | Michael | @Zanna, thanks for the info on how to merge! Will definitely do that in the future. | |
| Jan 14, 2018 at 5:03 | history | edited | ZannaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I don't think that was a quote, so undid formatting
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| Jan 14, 2018 at 5:01 | comment | added | Zanna Mod |
It is possible to move answers from one question to join those on another. That's called a merge and only mods can do it, so if you see a case where it would really help, you can raise a flag for moderator attention. If a duplicate has better answers than its target, then it's also possible the direction of closure should be reversed, unless there are other reasons for not doing that ("what does ls -a" do is a sub-question of "what does ls -la do") but if the questions are not really dupes and wouldn't be answered by each other's answers they should probably not be closed at all...
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| Jan 14, 2018 at 3:13 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |