Source: cirosantilli/stack-overflow-no-duplicate-answers-policy

= Stack Overflow no duplicate answers policy
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It's great right? You can't link to your other answer alone: <Stack Overflow link-only answer policy>, but you can't copy the other answer either.

And because not all duplicate close votes succeed, see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59649238/how-to-use-the-m5ops-in-gem5-such-m5-exit-and-m5-dump-stats-in-se-mode/63955139#63955139 the result is that someone else will come and answer the same thing in a different wording.

And some answers answer two questions that are not duplicates, e.g. superset/subset questions.

So just do a slight variation wording yourself and get all the reputation.

Related:

* https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1096/how-should-we-deal-with-duplicate-answers
* https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/243243/vote-to-delete-answers-as-duplicates-of-earlier-answers/243271#243271