The voting system does not allow votes to merge recursively.Take this situation as an example:
Idea A has 10 votes.
Idea B has 5 votes.
Idea C has 50 votes.
If idea B is marked a duplicate of idea C, idea C will now have 55 votes. If idea A is later marked a duplicate of idea B, idea B will have 15 votes but idea C will still have 55, not 65 as it should.
The voting system does not allow votes to merge recursively.Take this situation as an example:
Idea A has 10 votes.
Idea B has 5 votes.
Idea C has 50 votes.
If idea B is marked a duplicate of idea C, idea C will now have 55 votes. If idea A is later marked a duplicate of idea B, idea B will have 15 votes but idea C will still have 55, not 65 as it should.