Timeline for "This question already has a lousy answer here"
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| Nov 24, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | As roaima says, I believe that the Stack Exchange system doesn't allow a question to be closed (indeed, doesn't allow a user to vote to close a question) as a duplicate without specifying a duplicate target. Here are a couple of things that can happen, however: (1) Question A gets closed as a duplicate of question B, and then question B gets deleted. This should be flagged for moderator attention. (2) Somebody writes a comment saying "this question has been answered elsewhere" (without a reference), and then the question gets closed for other reason(s). Or maybe doesn't get closed at all. | |
| Nov 23, 2016 at 8:51 | comment | added | terdon Mod | Actually, it is impossible to close as a duplicate without a link on SE. The only way to mark something as a dupe is to provide the target question it is a duplicate of. So don't worry, this is one problem that doesn't exist here. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 13:24 | comment | added | Michael Felt | and I wish I could edit my comment - so many missing words... but I expect, or hope, that over time I will proof-read my comments better. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 13:22 | comment | added | Michael Felt | not offhand. unix.SE is not *.SE and maybe *.SE in general is much better than others. But it is a very very big red flag for me. Takes a long time for me to forget and follow links from a search engine - OR - I am extremely desperate. In short, I read the question - and past frustrations came up - I am just the reader and this does not help! SOO!! very glad to hear that unix.SE has the reader in mind! | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 13:08 | comment | added | Chris Davies | Do you have an example on unix.SE that was closed with "answered elsewhere"? I thought we were pretty careful about closing only with a follow-on reference | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 12:42 | history | answered | Michael Felt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |