User blog comment:Kirkburn/Introducing the Community Page - a hub for community info/@comment-26437440-20160629192814/@comment-26402117-20160710143440

Its not mean to direct users to an existing answer, because a lot of us do the same thing on the forums and other websites.

There are many examples of websites that merge requests if they are identical so that they get the same response. Chromium, StackExchange, etc.

Also, its hard to gauge people's emotions across the keyboard, but I didn't find his answer very condescending - seeing as there's a much more conclusive staff answer that @DEmersonJMFM is directing him to.