[fire_lake]

I can tell you exactly why my engagement is down with the site. It’s because every time I ask a question, it gets closed as a duplicate by people who clearly haven’t read my question carefully. It’s exhausting and not really worth the effort to fight for it to be reopened.

[zadokshi]

Yep, knowing this problem well, I asked a question the other day and defensively linked to the other similar questions to explain why they were not duplicates. My question was still closed with the claim of it being a duplicate. Last time I’ll ever bother trying to use SO again.

The decision to close my question in spite of it having a clear technical difference made no sense at all. It honestly felt like a bot that just noticed that a lot of the content of the question was related to other questions-a bot without the ability to understand why the question is literally different.

Why is SO like this these days. Is it just because there is such a large history of content in the site, that it’s easy for people who don’t want to think to just mark questions closed?

[fire_lake]

Sometimes questions get answered despite them being closed. These are often the most useful!