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2014-01-03 04:24:36 +0200
simo 
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We need to find a solution for this soon... e.g. Searching with word "email" brings up >160 results now. After our portal has been used only for two weeks, it's already getting difficult to avoid duplicates. Searcing through all the answered, unanswered and answer accepted questions is too much now. Trying to suggest another kind of solution here:
- Instead of merging, let's start to clean up. First by commenting like "could this question be handled together with this one", leaving the author a change to consider it, but if the comment isn't answered (remember to add @), just go and do it by anyone - editing both the topic and details, possibly adding an answer, and mentioning that there's some moved content from this and that closed question.
Then there's the question of which one to close when doing the work to bring two questions together. I see only two choises - either the newer one should be closed, or the less active one. I suggest we just use some common sense in this - there must be a reason for difference in activity, so sometimes it might be a better idea to close an older, less active one. In general, and in close to even situations in activity, of course the newer one.
Questions brought together should be quite closely related. This is a somewhat strong answer, I know, so some downvoting expected too. Just please try to see how our portal looks like after the next New Year Eve to understand why I suggest such a radical move at this point. IMHO Wwe should be able to handle all email related problems in half of the current amount of questions, or even less, instead of seeing even more in a short time. Maybe I'm not so unlike this time - this is pure common sense.
I agree - closing as duplicate without providing a link is pretty useless.
Malakim ( 2013-12-27 21:03:43 +0200 )editHm, wouldn't it be quite unfriendly, if a post is deleted and replaced with a different question? In my opinion it's much more nice to add a comment with the link to the similar question and then close the duplicate. BTW: can one sort out [closed] answers when reviewing all questions?
ibins ( 2013-12-27 21:13:11 +0200 )editibins you misunderstood me. it is not about deleting a question and replacing it with another one. It is exactly about that what you commented.
Neo ( 2013-12-27 21:15:57 +0200 )editAh! Sorry for the misunderstanding!
ibins ( 2013-12-27 21:18:52 +0200 )edityeah if you close as duplicate it should require you to provide the duplicated question link, that is a missing feature of TJC/askbot.
Kontio ( 2013-12-27 21:19:45 +0200 )edit