> "Trust me then, there's a duplicate out there somewhere, at least I'm
> effing looking for one"

[...] commented a recent Stack Overflow user on a question I asked and then answered (as a tandem ask-then-answer question).

**Clearly the priority for this person was to find a duplicate and close the question rather than allow the answer I'd posted to stand or allow others to answer or make suggestions.**

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Why did the comment begin with 

> "Trust me then [...]"

Because the first "duplicate question" that the user had proposed had elicited the following (quite accurate) response from another user:

> "That has nothing to do with what is being asked here"

Then - surprise, surprise - it turned out that the subsequently nominated "duplicate question", (which was accepted), turned out, on not-particularly-detailed reading **not to be a duplicate at all**.

It certainly involved some of the same concepts (javascript events, hovers and mouseovers) but it was a different question looking explicitly for a different answer.

**The accepted answer of the "duplicate" would not have answered the question I posted, nor would it have really made sense in the context of the question I posted.**

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I know people will do their own thing and Stack Overflow is a platform for  everyone to use as they see fit but these sort of **false positive "duplicates"** are frustrating.

It strikes me that some Stack Overflow members would rather hunt for duplicates than either:

 1. Try to answer the question; or
 2. Move on and find a question they can answer

Even if hunting for duplicates is a greater priority for a given user, perhaps they should at least make the effort on their chosen quest to find an answer which ***actually is*** a duplicate of the question they're trying to close? (This is the most frustrating aspect of all. It's one thing to see one's question closed; it's quite another to see it closed on a false premise.)

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**Question:** *What can we all do* to help make answering questions (and reading questions *properly*) a higher priority than trying to find duplicates (and sometimes false positive duplicates)?

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**References:**

The tandem question-answer I posted:

 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58675397/javascript-has-methods-to-simulate-user-interactions-like-click-focus-b

The proposed and accepted duplicate:

 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17226676/how-do-i-simulate-a-mouseover-in-pure-javascript-that-activates-the-css-hover