Then SO's reasonms for this policy need to be explained more.
The aim of SO is to provide answers to a question.
You do not want many questions with the same answer as if you have a new answer or a comment on this duplicate answer you need to then add it to all the questions. Thus we want to collapse all these multiple questions into one.
Also the person who I was replying to did noit seem to understand that they were a moderator, moderators are not a separate set of people to users.
citation needed that it actually provides better more consistent data. all it leads to is a flood of closed articles in Google search results. no curation whatsoever
The aim of SO is to provide answers to a question.
You do not want many questions with the same answer as if you have a new answer or a comment on this duplicate answer you need to then add it to all the questions. Thus we want to collapse all these multiple questions into one.
Also the person who I was replying to did noit seem to understand that they were a moderator, moderators are not a separate set of people to users.