It seems like most of the "power users" treat it like some giant multi-player online adventure game, where the goal is to win points and go on quests to get questions answered first, get answers closed as dupes, or get the accepted answers. The quality of the answers or information provided matters less than the points.
Neither updating a question nor closing/close-voting gains you any points.
When that happens to you, did you add a comment telling others why it is not a duplicate? In my experience most people don't and if they do it is just a comment like "It is not a duplicate". The latter is obviously not helpful and won't change anybody's mind.
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My last SO experienice was more like this
then someone edits my question to then my question was closed as a duplicate.It seems like most of the "power users" treat it like some giant multi-player online adventure game, where the goal is to win points and go on quests to get questions answered first, get answers closed as dupes, or get the accepted answers. The quality of the answers or information provided matters less than the points.
Neither updating a question nor closing/close-voting gains you any points.
When that happens to you, did you add a comment telling others why it is not a duplicate? In my experience most people don't and if they do it is just a comment like "It is not a duplicate". The latter is obviously not helpful and won't change anybody's mind.