• Spider@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Stack Overflow isn’t a tutor site. It’s a wiki. Its usefulness would plummet if duplicate questions are allowed, since that would scatter all the answers.

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      7 months ago

      Then it should allow to connect duplicates as sub questions to main question which they keep as original, Wikipedia allow additions to articles after all, i mean if you comment your question under main question, who gonna look at that?

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      It’s also weird to me that people seem to primarily use it to ask questions (and get butthurt about getting duplicates). It’s really rare that I ever don’t find an answer there (which often is buried in responses, but still). Like I’ve virtually never been motivated to post there.