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Thank you for working on dupe detection. Dupes of 'reaction' and/or controversial news posts have been pretty common lately. Ex 'Dear GitHub' 'Dear Dear GitHub
by EvanPlaice 11y ago
Thank you for working on dupe detection.
Dupes of 'reaction' and/or controversial news posts have been pretty common lately. Ex 'Dear GitHub' 'Dear Dear GitHub'.
One pattern I've noticed is there's almost always a comment with a link to the previous post.
A shortcut solution could be to encourage users to use a common convention. Ex 'Dupe: [link-to-dupe]'. That way it would be especially easy to pattern match and list dupes for moderation.
To prevent dupe creation to begin with might involve some creativity. Such as checking the post link against existing links and notifying the user of an existing post. Similar to what Stack Overflow's 'related posts' listing in the question creation page.
- dang 11y agoFollow-up posts like the example you mention aren't strictly dupes. Some of them are good submissions in their own right, others (probably most) are a bit lame. A similar category that's a lot more problematic for HN is the spate of me-too stories that inevitably pop up as every website in the business publishes its copycat article about story Foo. Again, those aren't not strictly dupes, but morally they are. > A shortcut solution could be to encourage users to use a common convention Too much like cat herding to succeed. But some kind of software support for reporting dupes is on the agenda.