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points by inetknght 15 hours ago | 0 comments
> People wrongly think a duplicate was something wrong.

No. A duplicate is fine.

What was wrong was when "duplicate" questions were closed in favor of other more-upvoted questions with less-correct answers, or questions that were marked duplicate which were in fact not duplicate.

[–] rerdavies 15 hours ago
Combined with the problem that more correct questions, that were likely to produce more correct answers were closed for further comments when they were incorrectly close-dup-ed. So often you would find the correct answer in the brief window between when the question was asked, and when a member of the self-appointed moderator class had incorrectly close-dup-ed the question. So frustrating!
[–] jodrellblank 14 hours ago
> "a member of the self-appointed moderator class"

It isn't self-appointed, everyone is a 'moderator'. And 'everyone' could vote to re-open closed questions.

[–] pixl97 12 hours ago
This generally doesn't work out on public forums unless there is some larger upset in groups of people.

That is, typically the largest consolidated voting group is going to be your moderators. 5 or 6 people with one particular problem don't represent enough voting pressure to re-open any topic.