@Braiam, that seems to be a much stricter definition. If the details given in the question cause the answer to be slightly different than any answer in the other question, and, due to the different details, would not really be a good answer for the other question, it would fail this test.

If the new question is just a more specific instance of the old question, and the new answer could reasonably be arrived at using the more general answer in the old question, then it's still a dup.

@Braiam, you beat me to applying the edit, hehe.. and yes, that background was annoying.

I would think that the original question that is both highly upvoted, and has several dups pointing to it should rank as much more relevant than any of the closed dups. Also when a question is closed as a dup, any good answers are supposed to be moved to the other question, so that kind of negates the argument that the closed questions may still have relevant answers.

@N.N., sorted by relevance. Why are closed questions even showing up in search results at all?

@userunknown, whether or not you agree with it or signed it does not mean this site does not promote it.

@userunknown, it is for all members of the Ubuntu community, not just Canonical employees. I believe askubuntu.com is part of the Ubuntu community, and so we abide by and/or promote the principals of the Ubuntu CoC.

@userunknown, I'm talking about the Ubuntu CoC, which I would think we would be promoting here as part of the Ubuntu community.

@userunknown, so what? It still describes policy for the site.