Timeline for Trigger happy on the duplicate button: do we really consider all song lyric questions "duplicates of the rickroll?"
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| Feb 18, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | l4m2 | I know I mistyped but I keep it | |
| Feb 18, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | l4m2 | 99 bear of bottle isn't duplicate to this but it also already exist | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 10:51 | comment | added | Level River St | @IsmaelMiguel One is glorified, the other is shot down. I can't agree with that. Both were closed at first, but I made an effort to get this one open. And while it is true that the syntax in your question has only a few identical symbols, the task as a whole is quite similar. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 10:45 | comment | added | Level River St | @IsmaelMiguel If by "someone else's bad work" you mean Peter closing your question, I think that's quite out of place, and you're reading too much into it. Everyone here is doing what they think is best, though some of us (including myself) can be overly harsh at times. Having reviewed both challenges, I'm afraid I agree with the closing of yours (it's not personal.) I disagree with the closing of this one because, per my answer, the text is sufficiently regular that a specific compression technique (rather than a standard one) works best. I'm disappointed other answers didn't take advantage. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 10:42 | comment | added | Ismael Miguel | Similarities are limited to [] meaning the same, supporting {} for a quantity and * means 0 or mote times and ? means 1 or more times. Other than that, it's different. On the other challenge, something like [[] would be invalid, while on mine you can output [. But that isn't the point. The point is: 2 questions on the same situation are treated differently. One is glorified, the other is shot down. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 10:38 | comment | added | Level River St | @IsmaelMiguel I don't think popularity is the issue. Your name is more familiar to me than the OP of the challenge this post is about. Both got closed (yours was closed by the author of the other answer of this post, and I've discussed the matter with him on his answer to the challenge.) This challenge got reopened largely as a result of this post and my casting the first reopen vote, because I saw something different in it. If it was your question I would have done the same. On the other hand I see quite a lot of similarities between your closed question and the one it is a "duplicate" of. | |
| Sep 22, 2015 at 9:03 | comment | added | Ismael Miguel | I feel the same. The heavy lifting was done to the death. This question should be closed. I won't defend my question because it was severely hurt by someone's bad work. The point is: 2 questions in the same position. One by me, one by a "popular" user. One gets closed, one doesn't. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 21:28 | comment | added | Level River St | @IsmaelMiguel By "one of our current moderators" I assume you mean Martin's answer to the meta question you linked in the OP above. I'm sorry your question got closed, and by my reading Martin agreed with this because he felt the heavy lifting would have been done by the user who answered the previous question (sorry I'm paraphrasing a little.) My point is that with the question discussed here, there was the opportunity to try new techniques, and you weren't going to get best in language by using the ones from the old question. Enough people agreed with me for this question to stay open. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 21:06 | comment | added | Ismael Miguel | According to one of our current moderators, that's enough to be a duplicate. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 21:05 | comment | added | Level River St | @IsmaelMiguel it's disappointing that many of the answers used similar techniques to the rickroll, but that wasn't the best way to answer the question. Look at the length of the text that I copied above. Text compression was not the main thing here, there was a riffle and omissions, similar to ASCII art. There are 3 answers in Ruby, mine (303 bytes) using techniques specific to the question, and two others (486 and 643 bytes) using techniques from the rickroll. Copying those techniques was not the best way to do it. The numbers speak for themselves. | |
| Sep 21, 2015 at 19:07 | comment | added | Ismael Miguel | If answers are being adapted, it is a clear indication that it is duplicate. | |
| Sep 12, 2015 at 13:29 | history | edited | Level River St | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1296 characters in body |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 23:03 | history | edited | Level River St | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Sep 10, 2015 at 22:48 | history | answered | Level River St | CC BY-SA 3.0 |