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I'm a member of another community that was run almost exactly like that for musicians called future producers. I moved from a 3 to a 1,4 and now I'm a pure 4. The thing that the 1's need to come to grips with is that people are going to keep asking the same questions over and over. SO needs the concept of a `git merge` so you can take take questions which might be part of another question and merge them in. By merge i mean a true merge, not just a link to the other question. SO is beyond the Q&A phase and needs to transition into the data curation phase, but it's rudimentary vote/mark duplicate/close/delete system isn't designed to facilitate that.


And they should award karma for spotting the duplicates, so people would do it.


You've put your finger on the nub of it.




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