<p>The community often brings old questions back up to the front page to allow for a fresh review by the membership of these questions.  Recently on Cross Validation I have seen members suggest that an old question is a duplicate of a more recent question.  If the two questions, call them A and B, are truly duplicates how can the older question A be called a duplicate of B?  If anything B is a duplicate of A.  I think this happens because the user is familiar B and is seeing A for the first time.  So he calls A a duplicate of B without noticing the dates of the origination of the question.  </p>

<p>I know that there have been many discussions here about duplicates but I don't think this issue has come up and I would be interested to here what other members think. </p>
