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Can I downvote answers for a duplicate question?
On stackoverflow, in my days at least, not active anymore, there was a rule which forbids answering duplicate questions (and most low quality or spam questions). Answering such questions is a try to ...
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Opinions on downvoting duplicate questions
I have interacted with a few new user recently who are very disgruntled due to getting a lot of down-votes on there questions for been duplicates.
I don't down-vote these myself but I can vote to ...
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Should we downvote duplicate questions?
I have been around for a few months now. What I notice is that the same questions keep on being asked over and over again. For instance about what ubuntu version to use, problems to install, questions ...
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