What a fun question that is. IIRC it takes a month for closed questions with a score of 0 or less(?) to be deleted, so at that point you'd absolutely be good.
The system doesn't actually care about who asks and so on, but anything less than 24h seems rude to me an even then. We said 72h for homebrew-review iterations so maybe that's a pace to hook onto
We do get querent coming back weeks later and specify the system. Not often, but I'm not looking forward to explaining to an asker "Sorry you're question was reasked by someone else, closed as dupe. But you do have an answer now..."
I don't think you're going to get any agreed upon answer to "How long do I have to wait before stealing a question"
If you do ask this I'd honestly just say "Link to the supposed-duplicate so it can receive the upvotes and make your own question a community-wiki so you can't"
@ThomasMarkov At the moment we seem to be jumping towards doing a meta override, so let's not throw multiple, incompatible approaches at the same time :)
@Rubiksmoose If stealing isn't the big issue... Then shouldn't I just reask the chronal shift question right now? (I think I am genuinely missing something since that's the whole reason I wouldn't re-ask it)
It's kind of a difficult tool to use and can only be done by diamond mods.
I was posing a hypothetical solution to a hypothetical issue. Not trying to derail the current line of thinking. We have one meta going on fixing the question, I agree we should see how that goes first.
And heck, OP may come back 5 minutes from now and make this all moot anyways.
we've agreed this is the price we have to pay so that people who should be less confident about whether or not they've positively identified the right game don't make mistakes
