Comment by Osiris
10 years ago
What about a way to merge stories that are duplicates but with slightly different URLs that didn't get caught in the filter? Perhaps comments from all the articles could get merged together under the post with the most upvotes.
We do exactly that when users find the duplicates and link to them from the thread, as well as when we find the duplicates ourselves.
Making higher-octane software that can automate more of this has been on our list for a while, but it's hard to know when we'll get to that.