Dupes generally drop off the front page, whether or not someone links up the previous stories in the thread. The whole point is not to let the duplicate story crowd out other stories on the front page. Redirecting would defeat the purpose.
We do redirect to earlier posts that had the exact same URL. But most dupes, in the sense of repeated posts about the same story, don't have the exact same URL. What do you do then? That's a hard problem. It would be great to have an automated solution to that but I don't know of one.
Why not redirect to the original story?
Dupes generally drop off the front page, whether or not someone links up the previous stories in the thread. The whole point is not to let the duplicate story crowd out other stories on the front page. Redirecting would defeat the purpose.
We do redirect to earlier posts that had the exact same URL. But most dupes, in the sense of repeated posts about the same story, don't have the exact same URL. What do you do then? That's a hard problem. It would be great to have an automated solution to that but I don't know of one.
sorry for replying late, thanks for the reply - [0]
... that is a hard question, something akin to topic amalgamation or cosine similarity on the bulletpoints?
could one (semi)automatically ask the community to confirm if story foo and story bar are both sufficiently simultaneous about baz?
.... is there any dataset one might be able to play around with on this topic?
[0] there's like 3 good mods left online and you are one of them, so thanks for that.
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moderators are not omnipresent, and some times the users are faster to react than the mods.
Is that possible?