An old question was brought to my attention that I was able to solve, and I wrote an answer.So far normal, but it turned out to be a duplicate of an even older question.
I asked for moderator attention, since (while not much) the older one was more "popular".The flag was declined, reasoned with:
Declined - I don't think asking mods to do that is proper. We can'ttell if it's actually a duplicate and using mod powers to abuse simplesystem checks doesn't sit well with me.
I understand that and now that I gained a single upvote, I was able to flag it as a duplicate.
However, I have run into this issue now more than once. Sometimes I write comments and in a previous case (I can't remember which), I even copy and pasted my answer under the other question.
Is there a proper way to approach this?