Timeline for Automatically redirect anonymous user from unanswered duplicate question to corresponding answered version
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| Mar 15, 2012 at 9:07 | comment | added | Jjed | @Madmartigan I'm talking in the scale of tens of thousands of views. I think it's safe to assume the difference doesn't come from people hunting for easy closes. meta.askubuntu.com/questions/2317/… | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 9:00 | comment | added | user159834 | Also you say "quickly closed" which leads me to suspect that the high activity may be what triggers the high view count on the dupe, people are looking for stuff to answer and don't care about viewing the original because they aren't looking for the answer. I'm sure you realize you can't take the numbers at face value, and I don't know anything about your actual research, just a suggestion. | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 8:57 | comment | added | user159834 | @j-johan-edwards: I don't disagree with your points, I was just being sarcastic above - I'm not very interested in this subject. However, there's only one condition I can see it making sense: anonymous users, questions with zero answers (both as stated in the OP), and closed as a dupe of a single post with at least 1 total net score of all it's answers. How common do you find that to be the case in your research? | |
| Mar 15, 2012 at 8:48 | comment | added | Jjed | @Madmartigan Stackoverlow isn't the sum of SE. AskUbuntu, for example, has a fairly web saavy crowd. Nevertheless, you still see tons of (quickly closed) duplicate pages with higher view counts than the page they're pointing to. Query the site yourself. This UI is failing users. The "good enough" viewpont on usability is common among programmers, and usually equally deluded. | |
| Mar 12, 2012 at 14:51 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | I've seen some indication on Ask Ubuntu that people just vote these questions as not useful, it would be interesting to see if this happens on other network sites: meta.askubuntu.com/q/2749/235 | |
| Mar 12, 2012 at 13:40 | comment | added | C. Ross | @CodyGray It's not that they can't figure it out, but don't you think it's better service to a user to go straight to the one with answers? | |
| Mar 12, 2012 at 8:22 | comment | added | Cody Gray | @Mad: I don't think we're that lucky... | |
| Mar 12, 2012 at 7:59 | comment | added | user159834 | I would assume they quit programming altogether at that point, rather than click one of the links. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 1:12 | history | answered | Cody Gray | CC BY-SA 3.0 |