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You've obviously thought about this lots. Is there a better way that you envision? My instinct is that it's best solved with more explicit curation of submiss
by nkurz 11y ago
You've obviously thought about this lots. Is there a better way that you envision? My instinct is that it's best solved with more explicit curation of submissions, but I can't yet picture a full working system.
- ColinWright 11y agoI think the primary unit should be "the story". I think that submissions of the same story should come under an umbrella meta-submission. This will allow different points of view, without splitting the discussion. New submissions of the same story can be identified as "identical" or "related", and either dropped or merged. All this can be curated by people who simply happen to notice the duplication, and most users need not do anything. The addition of a "meta-submission" might be too much of a step for the software, though. With some thought it should be possible to integrate the idea into the existing structure, but I know nothing about the internals, so I can't say for sure.
- dang 11y agoThat's actually pretty close to something we've been working on. I don't know when it will be ready though. Catching not only identical stories but also related ones is important, because often the same story appears in a dozen or even several dozen guises.