Meta Question

jca's avatar

Does Fluther no longer alert Jelly-askers when they're ready to post a question that's also been posted fairly recently?

Asked by jca (36062points) May 11th, 2016

I just had a question come up in my “New Activity” or “Activity for you” or whatever it’s called, and I saw that it was very similar to a question that was asked a day or two ago. Question was about swimming. It was asked in December 2015, which was only five months ago. Obviously Fluther did not alert the newest Jelly-asker that the question was just asked five months ago.

Recently, I had a question modded off because it had been asked in a very similar form not that long prior to me asking. I don’t remember what the question is (or was) but obviously Fluther didn’t alert me that it had been asked recently.

I remember in the early days of Fluther, when asking a question, if there was a similar question asked, it would come up with a link to the previous version, and if for some reason you wanted to ask it again, you could (like, if you decided there were many new Jellies that might give a new perspective to the question if you ask it again).

Observing members: 0 Composing members: 0

6 Answers

SavoirFaire's avatar

I just tested this, and it looks like we no longer get a warning about possible duplicates. In this case, though, the person in question answered the old question before asking the new one. The warning wouldn’t have done any good.

SavoirFaire's avatar

@ibstubro Yeah, that’s how I tested it. But the warning used to come before the question was actually posted, so I didn’t have to ask a duplicate question to confirm that it was no longer appearing.

JLeslie's avatar

I was wondering the same thing several months ago.

josie's avatar

Nobody home at Fluther Central

Dutchess_III's avatar

Mom and Dad moved out on us. Just left us here alone.

Answer this question

Login

or

Join

to answer.
Your answer will be saved while you login or join.

Have a question? Ask Fluther!

What do you know more about?
or
Knowledge Networking @ Fluther