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[Meta] Identifying duplicate questions as a moderator
Not sure how I missed this topic before. My two issues: This is in reference to the Unity Answers is degrading .... MODERATORS TAKE NOTE question...
What is the best way to identify duplicate questions? Doing this has been a nightmare for me. The search functionality here is some of the worst I've seen on any site - the same questions are listed many times in the results making it very difficult to sift through them all. To make matters worse, when I open a new tab to search, nearly every time I end up getting logged off the site in all tabs and have to relogin, find the question I was researching, and start over from there. So I stopped searching for duplicates because it's often easier to just answer the question again.
As far as rejecting duplicates, how is that done? Sending a message seems straightforward in the moderator area (although sometimes when I come back the message no longer appears), but I don't see any way to reject a question. Is this something that requires higher karma?
You don't have enough $$anonymous$$arma to reject a question. You need 10k to be able to do that.
Yep, I finally realized how pointless that post was. Only 16 users have karma over 10k, only 75% of them are active, while any user over 1000 karma can approve duplicate write my code how do I _ type questions.
I shall no longer be spam$$anonymous$$g any guides to how to use this 'site, all I am going to do is answer questions that I find interesting or think that the user will benefit from my explanation.
I suggest you don't worry about it anymore, its just not worth it. I became stressed out for nothing. Just answer questions that you think the user will appreciate, in most new user cases this is always. Ignore the write my code questions. That is all you can do. Doing this will actually raise your karma (if the OP bothers to accept your answer) so this whole karma system and the options available under the karma ranking is pointless.
Unfortunately this means if you ask a good question that requires a higher level of knowledge from someone to answer it, unless you get the attention of that type of person at the right time your question will likely remain unanswered (this is from personal experience).
So don't worry about, just have fun helping the users you think would be happy and grateful, and are willing to learn.
This is still relevant.
$$anonymous$$ods can also select "Send to $$anonymous$$oderation" now, in the question's dropdown menu to blast that dupe back to oblivion. Published dupes are a thing of the past.
If i can put the question title in google and instantly find a duplicate question, it's a duplicate. Or if two of the same question are in the mod queue (duh). Otherwise I'll only close as dupe if I actually know personally of a dupe. Usually the 'instant google duplicate' method is the only one i need. -_-
I'll also check to see what the last approved answer/question was (usually on the first page), and I won't approve anything older than that.
Using Google to search then, ins$$anonymous$$d of the site search?
Oh absolutely. Sorry Answers, your search function is butt. :')
If I see a question on this list, I give the OP a link to the list and close the question.
