@RyanD Board & Card Games Meta would be a good place to ask that.

However... time of posting doesn't really have anything to do with deciding whether a question is a duplicate of another. It is normal to mark the newer question as a duplicate of the older one, but not always; sometimes people mark an older question as a duplicate of a newer one if the newer one is "better" in some way (clarity, comprehensiveness, etc.) and has more answers, or something along those lines.

The end goal is to point readers who have similar questions to the best place to get their question answered.

If I made the wrong call in the dupe closure direction on my initial vote, requesting they get closed the other way around is valid to ask for on meta

I was going with my gut and my gut seems like it preferred the version I answered myself, so I guess I'm not impartial in that.

I wonder if they could be merged, also.

Quick Sanity check question:

Opponent has Ajani's Pridemate and 4 2/2 vampire tokens with lifelink

Opponent swings with tokens

no blocks

how many counters does Pridemate get?

should be 4

k that is what I figured

Gatherer ruling says each creature triggers separately, but I was getting confused since combat damage happens all at once.

that's reasonable to be confused about too

but it's four separate sources so four separate events

So it's like "Gain 2 life. Gain 2 life. Gain 2 life. Gain 2 life."

not "Gain 8 life."

The key rule here is 702.15e: "If multiple sources with lifelink deal damage at the same time, they cause separate life gain events (see rule 118.9)."

Ajani's Pridemate plus multiple creatures with lifelink is actually the official example for that rule

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