As for having multiple unanswered questions that ask the same thing, what's the problem with that? The problem is, we end up with a cluttered mess of a site and our answer rate goes down. I thought the while point of SE was to
not be like a forum, with data/answers spread out over the whole site. If we can't
somehow close the unanswered duplicates, we end up like a that. Maybe we shouldn't close them as a duplicate, but they should (in most cases) be closed
somehow to keep the site clean. —
Seth 26 secs ago