Is there anything wrong with giving an identical answer if the question is the same?
This isn't the first time I've done this.
However, I've only done this when the questions are identical.
In my own mind, I've justified this in two ways:
First, if two different people asked me the same question in real life, I would answer it the same way.
Second, I usually put a lot of work into answering questions. High tip questions usually receive a substantial amount of time thinking, researching and writing. If the answer is correct and the question is the same, is there any reason to change the approach of my answer?
Anyone think there was anything wrong with my (almost) copy-and-paste in to answer this question?
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I don't see anything "wrong" with it per se, but I would probably reference the original question in my answer..."As I said previously when so and so asked something similar, ".....".
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On one of those info sites, I believe it was plagiarism.org, I found that this was totally acceptable if you originally wrote the previous (essay was used as an example on the website) it would be answer in your case.
If askers stopped to search for the answer first, then we wouldn't have to worry about this. But I don't think anyone will ever look through the questions past, me included. :D
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You've done the research... and you will probably word it in a similar manner, but by typing it out again, you would word it just a little differently, which, since you use the real life example... would be more natural.
Can you imaging answering a question verbally using the exact same wording? I think it's the same thing here... so I type out each answer even if I'm saying basically the same thing. =)
my 2 cents...
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i also agree with @ssmacd. It's your work, it's your content - you're not plagiarizing someone else's work. Go for it. I do this all the time with clients, why not Mahalo? Reference the other answer - it's clear they didn't search the question :)
You beat me to it, I was going to say nearly the exact same thing. Perhaps it would be a cool feature if I could search my answers for text ^_^
I think in the future when I do this, I'll do a quick search and create a list of similar questions like @hillo did in the question referenced. This seems a little more natural.
If I was talking to someone, I wouldn't say "a few days ago, I answered a question from tktktktk about this". But I might say, "this has come up before and here are what others have said about it".
That's a good idea Susan