Timeline for A couple of questions regarding "Question closed as a duplicate"
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| Jun 1 at 17:42 | comment | added | eithed | @Gimby I didn't understand what closed means. I thought that answering a question means that is already closed. I've now read what closing means, so that is clear | |
| May 31 at 12:36 | comment | added | Gimby | "why was my question, that was already answered, marked as closed; what does this mean?" - That is a very confusing question to ask when the topic of your meta post is in your own words closed as a duplicate. I don't like at all that duplicate links are handled as any other closure, but that does not make it hard to understand. | |
| May 30 at 17:36 | comment | added | Security Hound |
As to the reason your question was closed as a duplicate of an newer question, 3 users with hundreds answers tagged to questions with cypress voted on the closure once one of those individuals flagged it as a duplicate. A user submitted an answer to a 5 year old question, it was then displayed on the first page, and drew the attention of users with the ability to vote to close the question as a duplicate. I can conclude issued the first close vote, but it does not matter, those 3 users did exactly what they should have done (IMO).
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| May 30 at 14:54 | comment | added | zcoop98 | Posts like these remind me of just how horrendous the language, guidance, and onboarding around closure is... it could really use some love by the company at some point. | |
| May 30 at 12:41 | vote | accept | eithed | ||
| May 30 at 12:31 | answer | added | testing-for-ya | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 30 at 12:30 | comment | added | Thom A | nothing in the duplicates process says that a older questions can't be the duplicate of a newer question. | |
| May 30 at 12:26 | history | asked | eithed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |