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| Sep 30, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | Make42 | Sadly it did happen to me as well on tex.sx: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/269296/… It took a while until my esteemed reader noticed the little word "comparison", which was not discussed in the proposed duplicate, but to be fair: the word "comparison" was easy to miss. ;-D | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:24 | comment | added | T. Verron | (cont'd) In other cases of course, it is blatant misunderstanding, due to some people not reading the questions well enough, and/or some people not explaining their problem well enough. In my experience it doesn't happen that often on tex.sx though. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:23 | comment | added | T. Verron | @user49283 That's a whole other story, and it's much more subtle than "SE vs the outside world". Here on meta, people are discussing as well as answering, which may lead to some subquestions being forgotten in the heat of the debate. On the main site, if an answer or dupe flag seems out of place, usually it means that the users believe they understand the question better than the OP. In some cases, it is true, and the OP is better served by trusting these answers/flags if he's in doubt. (cont'd) | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 8:17 | comment | added | Make42 | +1 just for completely reading my question post! I feel that on SE nobody reads my questions, instead so many questions are marked as "double" or "irrelevant", in so many situations where this is only explainable by assuming that the moderators did nor read my post and/or the post they assume to be a copy. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 5:54 | comment | added | T. Verron | I was addressing question 3. of the OP, where he specifically asks about giving rep. And my point is rather for the case when the core is not applicable without the additional details of your answer. If you make another solution, even referencing the core, it effectively becomes a better solution than the one provided. In this case, accepting the incomplete one sounds dishonest to me, but I see now that two concurrent visions of this situation exist. | |
| Sep 30, 2015 at 2:23 | comment | added | cfr | People are not suggesting accepting merely to give reputation. The acceptance would recognise that the core solution is found in the accepted answer. A second answer showing how to apply that solution or adding details should not be complete - it should reference the core solution in the first answer. At least, this is how I have approached this kind of case. I certainly wouldn't accept my own answer if its core was provided by another - even if my answer had to include that core in order to make sense. I'd accept the core solution. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 13:38 | history | edited | T. Verron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 29, 2015 at 12:19 | history | answered | T. Verron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |