The downvotes are just an integral part of the consideration process. Nothing to worry about.

"The downvotes are just an integral part of the consideration process. Nothing to worry about."

That's as maybe, but I also think that there should be some control in place to stop duplicate posts other than the "Whoa cowboy you've said that already" or somesuch which does not always work.

It would be pretty hard to guarentee. You'd effectively have to compare the text of every new post against the text of every existing post, which would be very expensive. And would miss if there were minor differences (corrected typos or formatting) anyway.

In this case the cause--and probably the most frequent reason for my dups--is that I submitted the post, then viewed the parent node to make sure that mine made sense in its context and noticed something that needed correcting. So I backed up through my browser cache and made the correction, but accidentally backed up too far--to the preview stage. Hence when hitting submit, I created a duplicate rather than replacing.

I've often wished that preview left the post to which you are responding displayed above the preview for reference. That would probably prevent 90%+ of my accidental dups.

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