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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Re: Duplicate Posts Revisited
by footpad (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2001 at 02:59 UTC
    Um, wouldn't this prevent the node from being auto-deleted through consideration?
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      Well, I assume that is what vroom is leading up to - the possible deletion of a bad node, regardless of whether or not is has any "children." Duplicate posts seem a prime candidate for auto-deletion, as long as we limit the reponses to a single parent.

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Re: Duplicate Posts Revisited
by extremely (Priest) on Jan 20, 2001 at 12:31 UTC
    Maybe what we need is a consider->move to other parent function like delete where we could push all the good posts to one post.

    That might also require a lock post function to keep more from showing up. Maybe a "duplicate" checkbox in the "Consider" nodelet that if checked by an editor or a few high monks would lock the post from getting any more children?

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