Timeline for It's time to reward the duplicate finders
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| May 20, 2020 at 6:14 | comment | added | Sayse | @Michael - Where's Clay Shirky - that happens anyway with the classic comment or answer signature "if this answer helped you...", the difference is that theres a 15 minute period where I believe that most questions were closed as duplicates, or at least they were at one point when moderation was appreciated by SO. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 19:23 | comment | added | Michael come lately | "before an answer has been accepted." This is going to lead to comical "Hurry up, accept my answer!" spam in fishy questions. | |
| May 15, 2020 at 13:18 | comment | added | Sayse | @StephenP - I see that too and ideally the newer answers should be added to the existing duplicate (and also why I personally sort answers by newest rather than votes). | |
| May 15, 2020 at 0:33 | comment | added | Stephen P | I sometimes see a question closed as a duplicate where (IMO) the new question is "better" and the answers (prior to closure) on the new question are current, where the old question which remains open has answers that, while they work, use outdated techniques. Sometimes there are edits to answers on the old question, but they often end up reading as an aside; "btw, here's how to do that in Java8+" | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:39 | comment | added | Sayse | @HereticMonkey - Yes, but i'd worry that long standing answers would be abused by this by being set as duplicates of newer lesser answers. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:27 | comment | added | Temani Afif | we should focus on deletion to get rid of this. If we cannot be fast at closing let's at least delete the question later. Maybe instruct the Roomba to automatically delete 1000nth duplicate | |
| May 12, 2020 at 19:07 | comment | added | Heretic Monkey | I've seen many duplicates that are answered, with acceptance, before the duplicate has been identified. This is especially true when questioners get the answer and accept it immediately. Then I come along and vote to close as a duplicate and they answer the comment "Does this answer your question?" with "I already have an answer" :(. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 18:44 | history | answered | Sayse | CC BY-SA 4.0 |