I usually start my search for answers at stackoverflow.com or
meta.stackoverflow.com -- but today I start at Google.  I
searched: "can I determine who down voted on Stackoverflow"
(link)  First result: (A) Can I tell who downvoted one of my
answers?  Second result: (B) See Who is Upvoting/ Downvoting My
Question/Answer  Now... when I proceed to go to meta I uncovered
these facts:    • (A) was created before (B)   • (A) was
answered before (B)   • (A) showed up before (B) on Google
(arguably irrelevant)   • (A) has more responses than (B)   •
(B) has more points total (question and answers) that (A)   •
(A) is marked as a DUPLICATE of (B)  Why did this happen?
Reference Links:  share|improve this question Presumably, the
later question was determined to be better quality. It's more
concise and the accepted answer was more in-depth. –  Tass Mar
13 at 1:19 I am asking for the user's ability to request the
moderators to reconsider a verdict of DUPLICATE or CLOSED. I
think that those are applied to some questions