@Ethan if there is a question that others may consider a duplicate but you think it isn't, you should address that in your question. e.g. "This question<with a link> is similar, but doesn't answer my specific question, it is different because..."

how the hell this question got upvoted is beyond me: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19026

@Ethan That would be me. If people are closing your question as a duplicate don't just whinge about it and say "It's not a duplicate" - instead edit the question to clearly show why it is not a duplicate (what information you're seeking that's different from the other question), and it will go into a queue to be looked at and possibly reopened. ( In your case I made it clear you were asking about the wing position)

The "its not a duplicate" assertion reminds me of this old meta request

@casey "It's Not A Duplicate!" on larger sites universally means "There were more than three words in the answer, it does not spoonfeed me the exact steps to solve my issue, and I refuse to put in any effort in understanding what I'm being told."

@voretaq7 yea, I've seen a few posts on U&L like that. "My post isn't a duplicate, that one was how to install kernel 4.0.1 on ubuntu and I need to install 4.0.2!"

(in fact when I see that, especially edited into the question rather than left as a comment, my pavlovian reaction is to delete the question)

@Ethan Concerning duplicates -> People don't generally slap the "duplicate" tag on something unless they really feel it is. In my own experience, I've found that the main reason a question of mine will be marked duplicate (when I think it isn't) is because I haven't explained clearly how it differs (like @voretaq7 talked about). It's really on the asker at that point to prove that it's not a dupe by showing the difference.

Not to brag too much, but I actually had to do this recently and feel I did a passable job (The question got re-opened at very least.) Note that I actually added a whole entire subsection devoted to showing the difference: aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/18849/…

PS- I wouldn't recommend being as snarky as I was in the comments...I tend to get snarky when frustrated, that is a character flaw on my part, not a good strategy for getting things re-opened. I recommend being as polite as possible :).

@casey Wow, the answers on that one are brutal! ...but quite funny.

I come home from school to find a question I asked last night have over 2k views and 13 up votes didn't even know that can happen that quickly. Apparently that is the greatest question I have ever asked on this website.

You know what else is weird that my own question was a duplicate of another one of my questions

I've seen people finding answers they posted a while ago as helpful and trying to upvote it.