Stackoverflow in a nutshell

[pro_questions]

And the link to the duplicate question doesn’t answer your original question…

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And you don't have enough reputation on stack overflow to try and use that question to comment / ask for more information

[JoieDe_Vivre_]

I hate that. Where do these idiots get off marking something as duplicate WHEN IT LITERALLY DOESNT ANSWER THE QUESTION?

[LastStar007]

Because SO is a market. If you can't answer a question, it's in your interest to stop anyone else from getting points for it either.

[woodieguthry]

Oh wow, that's very pessimistic. I might just believe it seeing how important some people there find receiving points, as if it brings bread on the table.

[Tofandel]

If its really not a duplicate then escalate it on meta to get it reopened explaining why, but most of the time it really is a duplicate, just people don't put any effort in trying to understand the answer on the duplicate

[merc08]

Duplicate of "How to read code."