> Those rough moderators would close off discussions for the most trivial reasons, yet SO still allowed those discussions to be indexed by Google (despite rel="nofollow" having been a thing since 2005 or so).
At least for "closed as duplicate" that is working as intended: "Closed" doesn't necessarily mean "you shouldn't have asked that question". In the ideal world, a post being closed as duplicate just allows people that phrase the duplicated question differently to also find it.
At least for "closed as duplicate" that is working as intended: "Closed" doesn't necessarily mean "you shouldn't have asked that question". In the ideal world, a post being closed as duplicate just allows people that phrase the duplicated question differently to also find it.