Timeline for Copying the answers for a duplicate question
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| Apr 27, 2012 at 13:16 | comment | added | Danny | @Gilles wouldn't adding a quote of the newer question prior to each merged answer solve that issue ("the answers on the new question don't work on the old question without heavy adaptation (changing examples, inverting the direction of yes/no questions, renaming variables, etc.)."). | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 22:47 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | No: you say that bad merges can be cleaned up, which I don't dispute. My point is that we'd end up having to clean up so many posts that it's far better to default to not merging. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 22:44 | comment | added | Danny | @Gilles If you read points 2 and 3 in my answer, you will see that they deal with the exact concerns that you raised in your answer. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 22:41 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | No, merging shouldn't be the default, because >99% of duplicates shouldn't be merged. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 22:07 | history | answered | Danny | CC BY-SA 3.0 |