Possible Duplicates:
Is it too hard to locate duplicate questions?
How can Stack Overflow discourage duplicate questions?
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions
Hi,
Every minute there are tons of new questions asked on stackoverflow. Some of them where already asked in the past though..
Let's say that today I asked a question for which I realized it was probably a duplicate of another question. Or even worse, I know I could solve my problem by using one of the answers found. But hey, what do I care..? I will get an answer to MY question soon enough. Without making the effort of googling it out first.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's lazy enough to simply post his question and refresh once in a while to see if there's an answer to MY concrete question.
What could be done (more) to prevent (or discourage) users from asking questions which have already been asked?
Reduce reputation when a question got marked as duplicate?
I'm a bit scared to get down voted on this one :)