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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

Peple misunderstand “Closed as duplicate” as an insult, when it’s just the hint to look at the provided link. If you didn’t find the answer previously, this just means there are multiple ways to express the problem, which use different words and thus don’t all find the same google result.

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

It's annoying when it is not a duplicate tho

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Which is quite often

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

That's fair, but if you edit the question to explain how it's different (without which, how could anyone even answer your question?), it can be (and often is) reopened.

[-] codemonkey644@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

But it's those people who close it as a duplicate and not post the link to a valuable answer.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

You cannot even mark it as duplicate without providing a link to the answer. What are you talking about?

You can provide a link to an answer but it's invariably not to the same question.

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

They also changed the wording from "closed" to "on hold" years ago, and I don't think I've ever seen the people complaining about the site take any notice.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

It's because they don't use the site and they don't have a problem to solve. They're just here to complain.

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