I never had an LLM tell me my question was already answered and imply I was stupid for not finding it. SO dug its own grave and jumped in.

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includenotfound 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sometimes your question was simply visually similar to another but conceptually very different, and it'd get closed for being a duplicate anyway.

Then you have to re-ask it, now with a couple extra disclaimers spelling out that indeed you did use the search function but no, the other visually similar question isn't actually the same as yours.

Then you'd get maybe 2 comments and -2 in downvotes.

	▲	naet an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The only time I asked a question on stack overflow I took a very long time crafting it, and was immediately closed as a "duplicate" of something that it clearly wasn't a duplicate of. Tried explaining how it wasn't a duplicate and got closed again. Never bothered trying to ask a question there again. The amount of effort I had put into being a good asker was completely wasted on someone who seemingly didn't even read my query before eagerly shutting it down.
	▲	lazyasciiart an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		And your second attempt would get closed as a duplicate of your first attempt.
	▲	palata 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sometimes? It happened more and more and when every second question was like this, I left. I wasn't going to fight against moderators forever. That was before AI.