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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://askubuntu.com/ with https://askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 16, 2014 at 13:35 | vote | accept | Wilf | ||
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:45 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Braiam I think I've lost you. Maybe I don't understand. It sounds like you're saying it was good the question was closed because the OP had a legitimate problem, which was distinct from problems other users had asked about, and which could be solved, and the user was at risk of following dangerous advice, although good advice was possible. That sounds like precisely the situation where a question should not be a duplicate, but should be left open for answers of its own. Note that I am not actually advocating for it to be a duplicate. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:38 | comment | added | Braiam | And more than once will show you empty partitions and bork your entire system. I've seen those questions and I was there, I know that is closed by the right reason and we lost nothing removing that of our system. And, if two answers are conflictive, both solves the X problem but forgets about Y condition in which one answer is potentially harmful, you can say that it answers the same question? No, it answers another question that ask about the Y condition, that is what I'm talking about when I say "1 answer would be applicable to any one that has the exact same question. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 3:27 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Braiam "SE is designed with the mind that 1 answer would be applicable to anyone that has the same question." No, it really is not. I don't know what would make you think that. Consider that many of the more popular questions on this site (any any SE site) tend to have multiple non-equivalent answers, as well as answers that convey similar information but in a different way or to a different level of detail. Take a look at almost any "canonical question" here on Ask Ubuntu. But to be specific to that question: when you can't select "install alongside," manual partitioning will often work. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 2:06 | comment | added | Braiam | How can you reasonably say that that question can have a single answer that will solve anyone with that same problem? We should really stop the questions that has bazillion of answers that could or could not apply for each specific problem. SE is designed with the mind that 1 answer would be applicable to anyone that has the same question. | |
| Mar 16, 2014 at 1:13 | history | answered | Eliah Kagan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |