Answer by Raedwald for How to handle cleanup of late blatantly duplicate...
This problem seems to be exactly what the Protected question status is for. It prevents low reputation users posting answers because the the question is attracting low quality answers (which tend to...
View ArticleAnswer by sanyassh for How to handle cleanup of late blatantly duplicate...
If you think that a late popular answer adds at least something to existing one, you can edit it and remove all duplicated information. If after such an edit this something looks like a comment or...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin B for How to handle cleanup of late blatantly duplicate...
I don't think converting them to CW is fair. If they posted it solely to earn rep... they're not alone, a lot of answers are posted for that very reason; on old questions, new ones, and all in between....
View ArticleAnswer by Jean-François Fabre for How to handle cleanup of late blatantly...
This self-answer isn't what I'm going with after reading other answers. I'm leaving it here so if someone else suggests the same they can see community disagreesAs I didn't get a full answer yet, I...
View ArticleHow to handle cleanup of late blatantly duplicate answers ('surfing') on...
There is a trend of people "surfing" by intentionally posting late blatantly duplicate answers on existing popular questions. This results in rep farming and noise and adds nothing to SO, and often...
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