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0 pointsarp2421y ago0 comments

So that's the other extreme end, and that would get repetitive for the people answering questions. Because in spite of the overzealousness of marking questions as duplicate from some people, some questions really do get asked over and over and over again.

Also: Stack Overflow is intended to be a long-term useful repository of question and answers. You enter "how do I frob a baz in foo?" in $search_engine, and the idea is you'll end up on Stack Overflow which answers that exact question. I have sometimes ended up on some of my own answers from years ago like this.

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greazy1y ago

It would be for sure an interesting experiments. Repetitive? No not necessarily. The refresh would happen could periodicaly, but the core functionally wouldn't change.

The old answers can no longer be used as the basis for duplicates, a new one must be created ( that brings a slew of problems, such as sniping for getting magic points).

But the refresh of PEOPLE (mods) is where its needed the most.

What is wrong with duplicate questions though? If the response - yes but my use case is a tad different and its not covered by the linked solution, then dialogue should flow not restricted

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