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I have over 6k rep, but I've come to hate it too - often within minutes of asking a question, some over-zealous numpty who plainly hasn't bothered to read the question, will flag it as a duplicate - despite it being no such thing.

I swear these people must sit F5-spamming their review queue, just itching to flag every question possible. They really make it an unpleasant place nowadays.

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When I find questions with a poorly placed close vote, I try to immediately leave a comment why I disagree in the hopes that others will see it before too many votes are cast.

Whenever I ask a SO question, I have to brace myself to spend the next several hours defending my question and correcting misunderstandings that I'd already anticipated and addressed in the question. It's exhausting.

I do this too, especially when my own questions are incorrectly flagged - but the dodgy reviewer invariably ignores me, and others soon follow suit without bothering to actually check what they are flagging - and if they don't, my question is ignored and buried: I assume nobody wants to spend time answering a question that has a close vote.

> I swear these people must sit F5-spamming their review queue, just itching to flag every question possible.

Hey, you have to earn those sweet internet points somehow... Gamification has its downsides like this.

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