Timeline for What is better: Answering questions from OPs edit by a contributor or motivating OP to write his own answer?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
10 events
when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 7, 2018 at 8:03 | vote | accept | Kulfy | ||
Dec 7, 2018 at 8:03 | comment | added | Kulfy | @terdon That's indeed a very long post. By the way thanks :-) | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 21:29 | comment | added | terdon Mod | For more (and more, and more) details, see How should duplicate questions be handled? | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 21:28 | comment | added | terdon Mod | By the way, I closed the two questions you linked to since they were both off topic. Your main point is very valid though: if you find a duplicate but you can't close because there are no upvoted answers, then flag it for mod attention and we'll deal with it. | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 21:25 | comment | added | terdon Mod | Oh, the age of the post is completely irrelevant. Always flag the less good post as a duplicate of the better one. So if the newer one has better answers (or even is a better question) then flag the old one as a dupe of the new one. | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 21:23 | comment | added | Kulfy | By reverse I meant suppose there are two questions. One was asked a month ago and other just now. The latter one seemed to be a exact duplicate of the earlier but the earlier questions answer haven't got any upvote nor accepted. But at a later stage it is realised that the new questions answer has an accepted answer, then should I flag the earlier as the duplicate of latter? Is the wait worthy? | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 21:17 | comment | added | Kulfy | In my opinion, in some cases these two concerns are inter-related. Let me explain with an example. This and this are two separate questions answered by me. Answers of both the questions haven't got any upvote nor they are accepted. Also, these two questions can be considered as duplicate of one another. I guess. But if I try to flag either of them I get this error. I think this is because I have less reputation thus less access to moderation tools. Hope I'm clear now. | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 20:46 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 3 | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 20:44 | comment | added | terdon Mod | I'm not sure what you mean with your last paragraph, but that seems like a completely separate issue. Please don't ask multiple questions in a single post. | |
Dec 5, 2018 at 20:23 | history | asked | Kulfy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |