The "closed duplicate" thing is blown away out of proportion than it actually is. I'm convinced people are just pooping on Stack Overflow, not because it's bad, but because they just like complaining about things.
>The "closed duplicate" thing is blown away out of proportion than it actually is.
I hardly use the site and it's happened to me multiple times. I'm sure people that rely more heavily on it see it all the time. I suppose it depends on the sorts of topics you're looking for help with, much like wikipedia or subreddits, a lot of the little niches are seemingly ran by assholes that would rather delete stuff than actually help people find information.
Closed duplicate of <something that is totally different>