Improving Yedda

A suggestion on redundant (duplicating) questions:

Duplicating questions appear on Yedda quite often. What can be currently used as a solution is to answer a redundant question by putting a link to an earlier version of the same question. The problem with this is that even after you put such a link, users continue to provide answers in the redundant thread. 

What about an option to put a link to an earlier version of the same question and lock the question for new answers? 

I mean this option could be implemented as a special button, e.g. "redirect and lock for further answers". The act of locking itself could be made in two steps: the author of a question receives a notification and if s/he is happy with the link to an earlier question then s/he approves the lock (e.g. clicks another button called "approve lock") and the question is locked.

Another approach to the issue would be an option to merge two questions. That way, howevr, the different formulations of the same question and the different tags for it would be lost and it's no good to lose them because they are actually valuable.

I see that after a whole year, nothing has been done in regard to the edit box.  :)  It's still maintaining its own clipboard, and still having broken wordwrap, and it's still not giving a way to close a link (try adding a link at the end of your text; when you type more stuff that is not supposed to be hyperlinked, the link just keeps going with what you type).

The clipboard thing is pretty inexcusable.  When will we get a real, working text box?  :P  Yay, I broke wordwrap again... 

I would be curious to see Yedda find a way to invite MENSA members to answer questions.

What about setting the "do not close blog yet" feature only on questions marked as resolved and keeping all the rest in a constant state of matching the question tags with the tags of (new) users? 

To my impression most questions on Yedda remain relevant long after the day they were posted. Even if a question's author is no longer interested in any new replies many other people might be interested. I see no reason really why tag-matching should expire. What do other Yedda users think?

I've deselected the option to receive notifications on questions I'm invited to answer but I still receive notifications in my mailbox. 

Besides what about an RSS feed for invitations? 

I agree, many questions remain relevant long after they are asked and long after the original asker is satisifed with the answer. And the value of some answers change over time (e.g. "what is the best restaurant in ..."). This is why you can always post new answers to old questions in Yedda.

The "do not close blog yet" feature you've mentioned has to do with the amount of proactive exposure this question will get, however, it seems like this is one of these features that no one really cares about, and we'll probably remove it soon...

To summarize, what you referred to as tag-matching indeed never expires.

http://yedda.com/questions/possibility_mark_question_yedda_4956834174031/?firstTime=1

http://yedda.com/questions/yedda_7353161778135/?firstTime=1