Timeline for Linking Encouragement
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| Jul 29, 2012 at 5:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/229443661824409601 | ||
| Jul 16, 2012 at 20:07 | answer | added | Tom Brossman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 10:24 | comment | added | Tom Brossman | @EliahKagan Users answering dupes should lose rep when failing to look for similars, same as the asker. This is by design, it is desirable. Best practice when considering a question should be to look for duplicates first, since so many users fail to (they are even pro-actively suggested when asking). Help new users find an answer with a comment, then flag or cast a close vote. Help all users fight fragmentation of good answers by linking to, editing, and developing canonical questions and answers. | |
| Jul 16, 2012 at 7:11 | comment | added | Sepero | @Eliah I agree that people would be disincentivized to close questions in the cases where they would lose rewards. It's always good to have input from every possible perspective. Hopefully website administrators here can look at the points made on this issue and come to a reasonable solution. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 23:34 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @TomBrossman To look at it from another angle: Suppose I answer a question, and subsequently realize it's a duplicate, but (for either good or bad reasons) I don't want to delete my answer. Right now, I can still comment/close-vote, without fearing losing reputation I've gained if it's closed as a duplicate. What you propose, on the other hand, would actually take my reputation away in direct response to me doing the right thing and getting it closed as a duplicate. As a result, it stands to reason that far fewer duplicates would be closed as such, if this policy were implemented. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 23:31 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @TomBrossman Questions closed as dupes often have valuable answers. Some have them merged into the master question. When they don't, it's often because the master question's answers already have enough information. That, in turn, is often because they were edited to incorporate content from the dupe's answers, often by the dupe-answerers themselves. It's hard to see seeing how reversing rep on dupes' answers wouldn't punish lots of useful actions. Plus, many such answers may be written by newcomers who we shouldn't expect to search for dupes to a question they can answer, before answering it. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 21:12 | history | edited | Sepero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2012 at 20:48 | comment | added | Tom Brossman | I agree. If it is accepted that duplicates are undesirable, the responsible thing to do is get them closed. A comment linking to the dupe helps the questioner find the answer quickly, and should be encouraged. Answering obvious dupes and collecting reputation points is currently possible and incentivized, but could be viewed as an abdication of personal responsibility to better this site. I'd like to see a 'best practice' for dealing with dupes spelled out clearly. If you lost extra rep attached to a question that gets closed as a dupe this might be good enough. | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 18:32 | history | edited | N.N. |
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| Jul 15, 2012 at 18:22 | answer | added | Eliah Kagan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 15, 2012 at 17:13 | history | asked | Sepero | CC BY-SA 3.0 |