@bmike What does "main question" mean?

I can understand if one question is considered "better" or higher quality or contains valuable comments, but I'm not sure how chronology figures into the decision, or how one can decide which of two similar questions can be considered the "main" one in the absence of those.

I'm a big fan of SE and always trying to understand better how it works so well, and I'm happy to see that two new answers have been posted there.

When we say "that’s just not how the site works" there's almost always a meta post that codifies how some process is done or decision is made. If there is a definition of "the main question" there somewhere that would be great to know!

Suppose we had closed (by voting ) the older question with yours, and then tomorrow another person asks the same thing, then we'd have to close yours with the newest one and the oldest question would now be a dupe of a dupe.

This moderator's comment on my ancient and deleted question links to the image below. Luckily other people took the time to explain more clearly and I learned a lot.

So putting all the new ones dupes of the older one maintains ... a good graph.

Idk why you’re trying to mock people. I would have replied yesterday in chat too if you hadn’t specifically addressed nohillside, or hinted that others can reply too

I'm absolutely no trying to mock anybody.

Your explanation about the timeline makes sense.

I didn't know what "main question" meant, but if if it's simply "earliest question" and sticking with the earliest question solves other problems, then that's a good explanation.

Oh nice,:) why’d you delete the meta post ?

Main was intended to convey getting the answers together

> help people find the right answer by getting all of those answers in one place

apple.stackexchange.com/help/duplicates

If chat isn’t helping, asking a question on meta would be best @uhoh so that everyone is clear

okay but the duplication was done before there were any answers.

I'm only asking about how a mod chooses which question to dupe as "exact duplicate" to the other in the case when neither question has any answers.

That makes for a meta post. I could post one, in two hours.

Since yesterday, new answers have been posted and the dupe reason has been revised.

thus my previous comment

there's almost always a pre-existing meta for anything that comes up.

I need to get up now.. bye people ! And good morning too

thanks for the info!

@Monomeeth I can't use the comment function and I think that's quite stupid system here. Therefore I used the answer function, that anyone can use without reputation. That's stupid again. I got even punished by -1 points becuse I posted something in the answer field. Although I'm a skilled scriptwriter I stay away to post anything in this forum. I only read.

@Atalantia not sure about the context here but I‘m sorry to hear that your experience with the site hasn’t been so good so far. Is there anything specific we can explain better to make the start easier for you? There is quite a lot of information in apple.stackexchange.com/help but sometimes it‘s probably too much to digest at once.

Having said that: Reputation gets restored if a downvoted post gets deleted. And I actually think that your question about the metadata generated by photoanalysisd is a valid one. Please use the „Ask Question“ button to ask it (and maybe include a link to the question/answer which triggered your interest in this for reference).

Hi @nohillside I don't understand why someone with low reputation can't write a comment but an answer yes. The contrary I would understand. Also I can't upvote an answer even it was helpful for me. I mean I would understand if someone can't write an answer and can't downvote with low reputation but not able to upvote and write a comment? I don't understand the deeper sense behind this obstacle and maybe even don't want to understand it.

@Atalantia The voting restrictions for new users are in place to prevent people from creating fake accounts/sock puppets in order to up/downvote specific content. See also the bottom of apple.stackexchange.com/help/whats-reputation for some more thoughts on this

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252149/… is a few years old but most of it is still valid

Also, see apple.stackexchange.com/help/privileges for how much Reputation is needed for what. Up voting and commenting are rather low-hanging fruits, and can usually reached rather easily by editing posts for clarity

I just commented under your old question which you can update with a script and soon you'll be able to comment too. Once you reach 200 on any one site, you'll get 100 on every site, so all basic privileges are there.

@Atalantia You nailed it. This isn’t a forum - it’s an intentionally thought out to prevent easy commenting but also allowing anyone to post a question or an answer. Also, everyone can suggest edits to improveactual posts. You are correct that the comment friction is built in and intentional. When you are facing challenges commenting, that means the system is working.

Until you’ve gotten a bunch of edits / posts and answers that the community has reviewed and voted positivity, commenting isn’t enabled.