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I don't really understand how storming to meta without taking a second to read the front page or the notification bar is a behavior we want to encourage. Why have almost all of those questions been upvoted at least once?
And, especially, why are some people answering them anyway even if they are fully aware that they are duplicates?
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Perhaps people are trying to up their downvote:upvote ratio to avoid item-the-second
By the same token, they shouldn't be downvoted either. If someone is feeling bad about the situation, there's no need to make it worse.
(I'm not blaming anyone, I'm just saying. The downvotes could have come from before a migration, too. A bunch of the dupes just got deleted before I had a chance to look at them.)
