The purpose of moderators is to moderate.
If they are afraid to do so, they should not be moderators in the first place.
As for educating the community, leaving instructive, explanatory comments is far more useful than casting a weak regular user vote in these circumstances.
So in summary: lea...
Seems to me the biggest cause of duplicates is that the search engine does not do an accurate match on what is a duplicate.
Now I know it's hard, but sometimes it's a little difficult for the questions asked to match the right search terms that are going to match something that already exists.
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I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android 4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method:
public boolean isUserAGoat ()
Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to
teleportations.
Returns whether the user making this ...
After Shog9♦'s Let's burn down the close queue! topic, I guess some alterations might be done to daliy limit for close reviews, since some Stack Overflowians reach the limit in short time.
Base Idea is, giving some extra review turns to some users (yeah, some extra lives to rescue the princess ...
