Timeline for Should we vote to reopen duplicates that have lots of votes and good answers?
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| Jan 25, 2022 at 1:15 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | @Thomas Wards comments here: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/19900/…, seem reasonable. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 6:06 | comment | added | Nmath | perhaps... but I guess there is where I am torn and start to defer to votes. Votes are (supposed to be) an indicator of usefulness to the community. On the flip side, when it comes to close votes, I rarely vote to close an older question with a lot of votes unless the closure reason is blatantly obvious or otherwise necessary | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 5:29 | comment | added | muru | @nmath I disagree about the first one. I can see why you might think it is - OP didn't provide details on how they'd installed it, the answerer did. But to me that's not sufficient. If I can say: "Teams is a deb package, see dupe for how to remove one", then that's pretty much a duplicate for me. If OP didn't specify how they installed it, then that's grounds for voting to close as unclear even. | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 5:01 | comment | added | Nmath | "Are they not duplicates just because they're upvoted?" - In the case of the first question, I don't think it's a duplicate; but I do think the second one is so I didn't vote to reopen it. I guess I'm not familiar enough with how questions are merged. It seems on this topic that there are some drawbacks to merging: meta.askubuntu.com/q/5641 Is it still true that merging would penalize people who answered questions that were merged? | |
| Jan 24, 2022 at 2:58 | history | answered | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |