Timeline for Can we remove the need for titles to be unique
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| Apr 1, 2020 at 12:43 | comment | added | Peilonrayz Mod | @rolfl Similar if not the same question, however no. The score on your answer which I previously upvoted, now paints an incorrect story. The answer's score is inflated by at least one, unalterable, vote. And so it's incorrectly showing more support than your answer now has. Closing as a duplicate will only indicate that the old way is always right. And even with the knowledge gained over time, we can't seek to rectify mistakes we made as a community. | |
| Apr 1, 2020 at 10:05 | comment | added | Mast Mod | @rolfl 5 years have passed. While the point in your answer still stands ("If we allow 2, we allow 200 duplicates."), keeping the current course for another 10 years doesn't seem feasible. The alternative is refusing questions which are about challenges that have been solved too often because all the titles are taken. Not necessarily a bad thing, but that would need community-support just as well. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 19:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 18:46 | comment | added | rolfl | Does this answer your question? Does preventing exact duplicate titles makes sense here? (P.S. This comment was added because I voted to close as a duplicate). | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 16:29 | comment | added | Mast Mod | Related: Prompt for more meaningful question titles | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 16:23 | comment | added | Mast Mod | On one hand I'm all for unique titles. If we allow duplicates, things will inevitably get messy. People may even 'steal' the title of a popular question that's already posted and all kinds of minor nuisances will pop-up. And I'm not sure SE allows duplicate titles anywhere, so who knows whether there's support on the platform itself. On the other hand, we don't have much of a choice, do we? We have 935 linked-list questions, we must be running out of titles eventually. | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 16:19 | comment | added | Mast Mod | Related: Does preventing exact duplicate titles makes sense here? | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 12:28 | history | asked | PeilonrayzMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |