<p><strong>The thread is now reopened.</strong></p>

<p>As nobody explained here why this should be a duplicate and as I could not see it myself, I voted to reopen. Unfortunately, this suggestion only got three upvotes and died out (even though I edited this thread at certain moment to push this Q again to the top of the Meta).</p>

<p>So I raised a flag for moderator attention and  explained the situation (in the flag comment space) as best as  I could, linking to this Meta thread. As a result, one of the moderators reopened the thread.</p>

<p>I believe this illustrates well </p>

<ol>
<li>that it tends to be much easier to close a question than to reopen it and that in general it tends to be difficult to revert previous decisions; </li>
<li>how such situations could be handled.</li>
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