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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

People do look at that eventually, but not as fast as some people want.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

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.