Timeline for What should happen to a closed question that is re-asked?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 8:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 6, 2013 at 3:20 | comment | added | user47 | @ColeValleyGirl I had no idea that merging was possible. Excellent solution! | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:55 | comment | added | user104 | @jmort253 I'll go ahead and merge the old into the new. Hopefully, Duncan can then make use of it and any other answer he gets. | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:50 | comment | added | jmort253 | I've reread both answers and the questions several times. They provide a lot of information, but I'm just not clear if Duncan was able to use it to connect the dots and find the final answer he was looking for. It seems to me that the question -- the same in both cases -- is who are the children. Both answers mention who the children are, so it appears like both answers answer the question. Hope this helps! | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:22 | comment | added | user104 | @jmort253 good questions or good answers? If you think both answers fit, I'll merge into the new post. | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:20 | comment | added | jmort253 | They both look like good questions to me. (I'll google the mushroom reference :) ) | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:18 | comment | added | user104 | I would like to have some clarity that the original question was closed for being way to vague, which isn't obvious at present. | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | user104 | However, if @Duncan picks a preferred post, I will merge into that -- life is too short to stuff mushrooms (if you were a British woman of my age, you'd recognise the reference). | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:16 | comment | added | user104 | @jmort253 Reverting to the original of the first question would make them somewhat distinct, and all the answers to the first question don't focus specifically on the children. I'd love to merge, but at least one of the answers doesn't address the children at all -- is it possible to selectively merge? | |
| May 5, 2013 at 17:06 | comment | added | jmort253 | Keep in mind that you can always merge the answers the other direction. Merge them into the new post. I can't imagine why it would be helpful to have two separate posts from the same user that ask the same thing more or less. The other issue with having two duplicate posts from the same users is that you now have a situation where the op can gain twice the amount of upvotes for what is essentially the same post. Merging the answers into whatever post the op prefers seems like a nice way to meet in the middle. | |
| May 5, 2013 at 14:38 | history | edited | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 5, 2013 at 14:31 | history | answered | user104 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |