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Thanks! Also, hiding the dupes to prevent polluting the main page is a good idea but @dang kind of annoying that doing that in this case means the story drops

Thanks! Also, hiding the dupes to prevent polluting the main page is a good idea but @dang kind of annoying that doing that in this case means the story drops in rank on the page - this story was in active discussion and if there are dupes I think it would make sense to boost the original to the level that this duplicate was at instead of burying the story

dang 3y ago
We do that all the time, but in this case I'm not sure it's proper because the Ilya story is included in the article that's currently at #1, and the discussion is including both.
- vikramkr 3y ago
  That makes sense! My thoughts were just that there were two similar versions of that same story highlighting the 550 employees and their letter, and the board member's backtracking seemed a distinct conversation (employees not agreeing with the board vs board members themselves suggesting the decision was a mistake) but i can see how 3 posts on the same thing would be a bit much. Though for an hour there kind of felt like there was enough interest and chaos for every post on the front page to be an openai post lol
- vikramkr 3y ago
  Wait also @dang was this flagged because it was a dupe? The site was lagging out and I couldn't tell it was already posted and I agree that the existing one should be the main one - I can delete it or something instead but I figured getting hidden and transferring the comments was enough to give due credit and support to the first poster?
  - dang 3y ago
    Users flagged it. Not sure why, but I'll turn the flags off.