I've certainly come across a lot of questions (that I've also wanted to know the answer to!) that have incorrectly been closed as a duplicate of something else that's not really the same. But I suspect there's a lot of selection bias going on: by the very fact I'm searching for that specific unusual case, I'm going to come across this type of question that looks like a duplicate to the untrained eye. On the other hand, people doing the reviewing also see a raging torrent of actual duplicates, and maybe many of those claim their situation is slightly different when really it isn't, causing the reviewers to get jaded.
Yeah, as someone that has reviewed thousands of things in the review queues: There's SO. MUCH. TRASH.
The meme is that it's power-tripping moderators and stuff, but it's mostly normal users like me reviewing an never-ending pile of garbage, trying to let the few good posts through.
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I've certainly come across a lot of questions (that I've also wanted to know the answer to!) that have incorrectly been closed as a duplicate of something else that's not really the same. But I suspect there's a lot of selection bias going on: by the very fact I'm searching for that specific unusual case, I'm going to come across this type of question that looks like a duplicate to the untrained eye. On the other hand, people doing the reviewing also see a raging torrent of actual duplicates, and maybe many of those claim their situation is slightly different when really it isn't, causing the reviewers to get jaded.
Yeah, as someone that has reviewed thousands of things in the review queues: There's SO. MUCH. TRASH.
The meme is that it's power-tripping moderators and stuff, but it's mostly normal users like me reviewing an never-ending pile of garbage, trying to let the few good posts through.