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THIS THREAD HAS BEEN MARKED AS DUPLICATE https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
by pearjuice 13y ago
THIS THREAD HAS BEEN MARKED AS DUPLICATE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
- trendspotter 13y agoThanks. I found a great suggestion to this problem over there: "Maybe borrow a feature from Stack Overflow [or Get Satisfaction or Desk.com or Uservoice], which presents similar-sounding stories before posting? Some client-side JS which pulls the page, heuristically picks some "interesting" words, and runs them through search.yc?" Here is the perfect and best of both worlds solution to prevent duplicates: Step 1: (Algorithm) Automatically check the title (and maybe other metadata like keywords) of his submission against similar existing content on HN. Present these results to the user. Step 2: (Human) Let the user's intelligence decide if his submission to HN looks like a duplicate of another user or not.