Hi.
While we answer questions raised by the readers, we can simply answer them or flag them as ‘Bad Question’ ; but what if we come around a question that has already been answered in another form. I mean the same thing is answered before in one or another way. Obviously, we can’t flag them bad because they do make sense regarding the topic and further answering the same thing multiple times would be a tedious job for wikiHowians.
We could have something like “Already Answered” so that it can be merged up with the answered question. Since we don’t have the name of the user who asked the question, we can’t talk to him about this.
What do you say?
Well… flag as bad question means deleting it right? So you delete the already answered ones.
Anna
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Ah yes, the dups definitely do come up. It’s great that you’re looking out for ones that don’t need another answer!
I’m with @Blackcats-Awesome
on how we can handle it – I think the intention is that “bad” question just means “question we don’t need to collect an answer for”, so feel free to use it for any kind of removal reason: submissions that aren’t questions, ones that are off-topic, ones that are vandalism/trolling/spam/etc, ones that are too specific to be really helpful to most readers, ones that are on the wrong topic, ones that are already answered, etc etc etc
^ Maybe you can change the thing to “Flag for deletion”…? Just a thought. Don’t have to!
Anna
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Hah, *jinx* - I just suggested “Flag for removal” to Alissa - I’ll pass your suggestion on, too. I think either of those could be clearer for anyone unsure of what “bad” means. Thanks for the suggestion!
You’re welcome! Actually you already said that… so don’t thank me!
Alright, that makes sense if we can flag them as bad for being already answered.
