In light of the recent post by our local vicar regarding the deletion of bad nodes with replies, I have a suggestion regarding duplicate nodes. You know, the ones where the same question is asked more than once. As kudra has pointed out, sometimes more than one of the duplicate questions contains good replies. I recommended a while back that we should ignore all but the first question, but even better is a practice that I have seen some do: reply to any duplicates, stating that this is a duplicate and requesting that all answers go to the "original" question and not this one. ("Move along folks, nothing to see here....")

Hopefully, most people will see the warning and not post anything of consequence on the duplicated node. Then we can safely pelt it with negative votes until it goes away.

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