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Comment by harpocrates | Hacker News Reader

You realize _why_ the questions are being closed, and instead of cooperating with the people trying to keep StackOverflow clean, you just go around them. I never understood why StackOverflow would try to find correlations in user votes (voting fraud) until now.

I am disgusted.

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I agree that OP is pretty unashamedly doing "bad" stuff. That said, if it was a jr dev who really had a different question that was closed, and had searched through SO and couldnt get help, I would be more apathetic/agree with the decision.

That said, SO should link the duplicate question to the answer question if it does exist. It would stop this behavior and be very useful

That's already mandatory, and has been for nearly 8 years.

Why feel something as strong as disgust for a person doing what he can to keep his question alive on a website on the internet?

If this person has found a reasonable way to keep his questions alive he should be applauded.

He has found a way to keep his question alive, at the known cost of generating what is likely going to be garbage for posterity (I am exaggerating here, but bottom line is that if a question is being closed, it probably is not useful to posterity).

He realizes his question is not good, yet instead of spending extra time to make it better, he votes on it from multiple accounts.

What does that have to do with you feeling disgust?

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