If someone asks the same question what would happen?

Question

I was reading about your question on "why do I need to search for my question?". I was a little confused about your answer.

When I was reading your answer on the question why do I need to search for my question? I was wondering whether if you had the same question as someone previous would your question be deleted from the forum?

Answer 1

There are some forums that get very stuffy about repeating questions, and either remove the question, or leave a terse response to see the previous question.

I can understand that busy forum admins, and people who give their time to help others can be quite annoyed when this happens. I know from my experience in running a health forum, that I occasionally found very similar questions quite annoying - especially when they have been asked, and answered recently.

I have tried to do things differently at Freedly.

I do not encourage repeat questions, but they will never be deleted (unless somebody is doing it to be purposefully annoying). The worst that can happen is that they will be ignored.

If you are using Freedly to gain expertise, and a helpful network, then the last thing you want is to be ignored.