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zarzavatlast Sunday at 7:04 AM1 replyview on HN

Yes but that only works if the questions are identical. Often however they are merely similar, but closed as duplicates nonetheless.


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zahlmanlast Sunday at 7:09 AM

No, that is completely wrong. It is exactly because the questions are not identical that the system works. That is what allows for multiple versions of a popular, important question to catch attention from search engines, and send everyone to the same, correct place.

Perhaps your objection is that, because the target question is not literally identical (for example, maybe a code sample has different variable names, or the setup has an irrelevant difference in the container type used for a collection, etc.) that the answers don't literally answer the new version of the question. That is completely missing the point. It's not a forum. The Q&A format is just the way that information is being presented. Fixing the issue in your, personal code is not, and never has been, the goal.

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