I seem to have a hard time finding good answers for my meta questions. I usually have an issue I'm curious about on SO, so I search MSO using appropriate keywords to see if there are any similar questions.
Having found none, I then type the question into Ask Question
and carefully examine the suggested questions to see which are similar (just as I do on SO.) If I don't see any there, so then I post the question.
Then...BAM! I get immediate downvotes and the banhammer/duplicate police close my question within 5 minutes.
More than half of the questions that I still have live have been marked as duplicates. The rest I've deleted due to being marked as duplicates or having downvotes. If you check my SO profile, which I've recently started becoming much more active in, you'll see I'm not a troll...I swear.
- What can I do to avoid this situation?
- Why is it so hard to find existing information on MSO than SO?
- Is there some other way to find questions other than the search box and the suggested
Questions that may already have your answer
box?