Timeline for Closing reposts of closed, poor questions as duplicates of the original question
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| Sep 7, 2024 at 8:30 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @BioPhysicist It's standard practice across the network to close such reposted questions as dupes of the original. I don't think that should change. However, I agree that the dupe closure notice could be improved, but that's a topic for meta.stackexchange.com I sometimes post a brief comment saying something like "Please don't repost your closed question. Instead, edit the original question so that it's answerable". Of course, some closed questions are so poor that editing won't help, so I don't bother commenting on those. | |
| Sep 6, 2024 at 18:46 | comment | added | BioPhysicist | I understand your second paragraph, but I don't think it is relevant here. I am not asking if users shouldn't be reposting their bad questions. I am asking if it's better to close the repost as a duplicate of the first, or to close it based on what is bad about it. Should duplicate closing be reserved for the case when the duplicate is a good question that provides an answer only, or should the close reason in this case in fact be closing as a duplicate? | |
| Sep 6, 2024 at 12:28 | history | answered | QmechanicMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |