Timeline for Why was this question on remotely wiping deleted?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 16:21 | comment | added | JamesRyan | @kasperd I think we are talking at cross purposes obviously the search engine needs to see each seperate version | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 16:03 | comment | added | kasperd | @JamesRyan If search engines are redirected to the original question, they won't see any keywords in the duplicate question, which could have helped find it. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 10:58 | comment | added | JamesRyan | @kasperd it shouldn't prevent them, that is the whole point of leaving the question behind! | |
| Mar 30, 2015 at 7:35 | comment | added | kasperd | @MichaelHampton Has anything been done to ensure this doesn't prevent search engines from finding the question when a user types words matching the duplicate but not the original question? | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | Also note that questions marked as duplicate are now redirected to the duplicate target, for users who are not logged in. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | kasperd | @BigHomie I believe it is based on the assumption that duplicate questions are asked because somebody couldn't find the previously asked question. By leaving the duplicated question in place with a reference to the older question, it serves as a help for the next person searching for the answer. They may enter search terms that lead them to the duplicate but not to the original question. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | @kasperd I think the real question is: Why aren't duplicate questions deleted in the first place? | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 9:40 | comment | added | kasperd | @HopelessN00b Why would you consider deletion to be better than close as duplicate? | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 7:26 | comment | added | kasperd | The comments given before the OP gave up weren't particular helpful. So giving up sort of makes sense. I think the OP would have been better off by having the question closed as duplicate, than by receiving those comments. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 7:05 | history | edited | kasperd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Point link to the actual question mentioned in the link text
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| Mar 27, 2015 at 7:04 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | That's pretty much it. Closed, negatively voted question question with a negatively voted self-answer that's actually demonstrably incorrect, and more or less says "I give up/forget it." The site's better off without it, IMO. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 7:01 | history | answered | Michael HamptonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |