Timeline for Why would a moderator delete the first duplicate answer in the timeline?
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| Jan 20, 2023 at 0:08 | vote | accept | Redarm | ||
| Jan 18, 2023 at 9:35 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jan 17, 2023 at 18:33 | comment | added | nohillside Mod | We don't have a policy against duplicate answers at all. But the post in question (cited below) read more like a comment than an answer so it got deleted due to that. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:53 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Personally I don't see the point to delete duplicate answers, unless of course copy and paste on purpose. But each site has its own policies, and looks like this site is very strict about it. To change it, start a discussion here and if you get enough support, the policy might change. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:44 | comment | added | Redarm | @F1Krazy nohillside and the answer mention a specific example. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:43 | comment | added | Redarm | Thank you @Shadow Wizard Chasing Stars and sorry for choosing the wrong meta forum. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | Redarm | @nohillside Thank you for the explanation. I don't see much difference to the second answer (apart from mistakes omitted and the possibility of a bug considered). If that's not enough, both answers should have been deleted. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:32 | comment | added | nohillside Mod | If you refer to apple.stackexchange.com/questions/453405/…, your post seemed to be more a comment than an answer, was flagged as Not an Answer, and deleted based on that. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:31 | answer | added | GlorfindelMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:27 | history | migrated | from meta.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:24 | comment | added | VLAZ | Caution: I've seen many people complain about "duplicate" answers when the same result can trivially be reached independently. For answers posted close together but one has a bit more details, it could just be that it took longer to write due to the additions, rather than copying an existing one and including more things. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:24 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | When you bring it this way of course the only possible answer is "Sure, you're correct, the mod is wrong!" however, there is always more to it. This is off topic here, ask this on the per-site meta and the relevant mod(s) can give you real answer, knowing all the details. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:22 | comment | added | F1Krazy | Can you point to any specific examples of this happening? | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:20 | history | asked | Redarm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |