(The title is a joke related to some recent discussion regarding the word 'deprecated')

Some people (especially the new) tend to make more than one of the exact same post - as if they are just hitting the Stumbit button over and over again. It would be best if a feature was added that did not let you add a new node unless it's name was different from your previous post.

What I would really like to adderss, however, is how the community should react to multiple posts. I propose that the rule of thumb is to always respond to the *earliest* post, and savagely vote down the others until the Grim Reaper can come along and remove them. It can be hard to keep up when there are 5 identical posts, and some people have replied to #1, some to #3, some to #5, etc. Even if the original poster adds a new post that clarifies or expands the original, they should be asked to edit and update the original itself, rather than leave confusing copies cluttering up our coveted cloister. :)

In reply to Deprecating Multiple Posts by turnstep

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