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And as a bonus it's a problem waiting for someone to solve
by c1sc0 17y ago
And as a bonus it's a problem waiting for someone to solve
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoNo there isn't. I've already suggested a solution that will work in almost every case of duplication I've detected, and it appears to be completely ignored. To be fair the general decline in civility and quality, and the general increase in spam might be regarded as more pressing issues, but the solution I suggested seems trivial to implement and moderately effective. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
- dlib 17y agoIsn't this what plagiarism algorithms are doing? Scrape the content, run through the plagiarism filter (although not a very strict one to prevent false positives on quotations and the like) and you are done. If there's a match, show it so the submitter can see for himself.