WRONG! The dotwins should have an automatic registry of urls that are posted to the website. If a new post is made with a url previously posted, the poster should be alerted that their post is a “re-post” with links to previous posts with the same url, and a message “do you still want to make this post.” It’s been a feature on plebbit for years. Not sure why it’s not here. The reposts on this website clutter the hivemind effect.
This is a very basic feature that could easily be implemented here and greatly enhance our ability to post and promote information. Yes, different urls to variations of the same news story would be fine. It’s duplicate urls that are alerted to posters. Don’t read into my comment too much. I’m just saying, it’s a lot to ask a user to “search” for previous posts. It could easily be automatic for everyone all the time.
it’s a lot to ask a user to “search” for previous posts
Not really. This is primarily a research community, and expecting people to do a bit of research before they post, whenever they can, is not too much.
It could easily be automatic for everyone all the
Again not really. We dont have access to dot win servers and even if we managed to prod them into implementing this feature, it would only stop maybe 10% of the duplicates since people bring in content from much wider range of sources than on reddit.
On the other hand people could add their own unique commentary for the news they are sharing, in which case it wont be a duplicate but rather adds value.
WRONG! The dotwins should have an automatic registry of urls that are posted to the website. If a new post is made with a url previously posted, the poster should be alerted that their post is a “re-post” with links to previous posts with the same url, and a message “do you still want to make this post.” It’s been a feature on plebbit for years. Not sure why it’s not here. The reposts on this website clutter the hivemind effect.
Aka "reality is not correct because it does not conform to my expectations".
And how does Reddit handle when two posts are for same news but from different sources?
Lol, let me hazard a guess and say because this is not reddit
This is a very basic feature that could easily be implemented here and greatly enhance our ability to post and promote information. Yes, different urls to variations of the same news story would be fine. It’s duplicate urls that are alerted to posters. Don’t read into my comment too much. I’m just saying, it’s a lot to ask a user to “search” for previous posts. It could easily be automatic for everyone all the time.
Not really. This is primarily a research community, and expecting people to do a bit of research before they post, whenever they can, is not too much.
Again not really. We dont have access to dot win servers and even if we managed to prod them into implementing this feature, it would only stop maybe 10% of the duplicates since people bring in content from much wider range of sources than on reddit.
On the other hand people could add their own unique commentary for the news they are sharing, in which case it wont be a duplicate but rather adds value.