OK, but the person you’re replying to left SO over this policy, and you didn’t seem to register that at all, just repeated the policy.
The fault finding culture of SO is toxic.
The fault finding culture of SO is toxic.
The aim of SO is to provide answers to a question.
You do not want many questions with the same answer as if you have a new answer or a comment on this duplicate answer you need to then add it to all the questions. Thus we want to collapse all these multiple questions into one.
Also the person who I was replying to did noit seem to understand that they were a moderator, moderators are not a separate set of people to users.
However SO Inc wants money and so more users.
You can"t expect the answerer to answer each individual question which is the same, especially as the answer might have been given over 10 yuears ago?
What do you expect a good answerer to do with a question asked for the hundredth time?