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Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upo...
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#2: Post edited
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Lundin
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2020-10-06T14:16:22Z (about 4 years ago)
- Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upon.
- Maybe code a mechanism where anyone can suggest a duplicate target, even if they are the original author (of the question and/or answer) themselves? But make it so that the actual close vote has to be carried out by another, impartial user. Or maybe a certain kind of flag?
- Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upon.
- Maybe code a mechanism where anyone can suggest a duplicate target, even if they are the original author (of the question and/or answer) themselves? But make it so that the actual close vote has to be carried out by another, impartial user. Or maybe a certain kind of flag?
- Yet another alternative might be to give questions a certain "FAQ" status (by community consensus) and those questions with that status are always fine as dupe targets regardless of the original author(s) of the Q/A.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lundin
·
2020-10-06T14:11:25Z (about 4 years ago)
Alternatively, we could just make a policy that it's OK to close vote posts as duplicates even when you are the original author. This was never explicitly forbidden on SE, but sometimes frowned upon. Maybe code a mechanism where anyone can suggest a duplicate target, even if they are the original author (of the question and/or answer) themselves? But make it so that the actual close vote has to be carried out by another, impartial user. Or maybe a certain kind of flag?