There are quite a few duplicate news stories Jax...I think it needs to be reiterated that all those contributing read/skim through the 'all new picks' before adding any more news.

I submitted a duplicate earlier today, and that was after I had already skimmed the previous posts. I just flat missed it. But I think part of the problem is that since the "Weekly Leader" board was posted, I've seen a huge increase in links posted as people try to see their names move up the list. More links is a good thing for Plime, but I can see more instances of people missing a link and posting a dup, just because of the number of new posts per hour.

I'm going to add an automatic similar story search to the link submission page, that is done prior to a link being submitted.

I admit, I've been guilty of that a couple of times. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of the stories. When I have an item I'd like to add, I always scan the picks first, but there have been a couple of times when I missed one.

This could be another use for the "prune" link - to eliminate duplicate stories. Of course, then the problem becomes "which story do we eliminate?" Do we get rid of the one submitted later? Or do we keep it since it has a more creative headline/description and eliminate the earlier post?

That would be a very cool and very functional tool for Plime!

Quick question.
I added the "Worlds most photorealistic art' post in the photoshop area.
It was fairly popular so today I added a good tutorial relating to it.
I considered just putting a link to it in the original post but felt it wouldnt be seen as people rarely visit a post twice unless they have involved themselves with a comment.

Is that ok?

And if they both have flourishing conversations associated with them, then what?

Imagine this one: William Petersen (the CSI guy) snaps and is arrested for clubbing pigs to death using a sack full of iPods. It gets submitted multiple times to Crime, Television, Technology, and Weird.

Some dupes are going to get through, regardless of any software tool to keep it from happening. Maybe add a new ability to "merge" stories and conversations?

It could work like this: If a user notices a dupe, he flags it. Higher level users have a "flagged" tab where such stories appear, each with a checkbox. Check off the dupes on this page and hit submit (or unflag). That brings you to a page listing all the dupes you've checked. On this page, check off which headline/link/picture/section is most appropriate and hit submit again.

Done. You now have one story, and a link underneath that reads "all related threads." The merged story keeps the same ranking as the highest ranked of the earlier bunch.

Too much work?

I'd say the let first article stays. Imagine hundreds of articles being submitted hourly. Some will be duplicated by accident, but if the article that stays is determined by writing style, popular stories will have multiple people trying to outwit each other.

My suggestion is let higher level members delete the duplicates. Digg.com has members "bury" an article. Perhaps have members over a certain level have the ability to delete, or force the duplicate article to an area where it would be less likely to be seen. The more members that delete, the further it goes.

Just an idea, but duplicate articles will become more an issue the more popular Plime gets.

Ive just done this by accident in the gossip section. (Paris admits shes stupid.)
I put a comment in the first post saying to please prune mine and Ill add as a link in the first one.
I even looked at the first one before posting and didnt initially see the two posts were connected. This is going to be inevitable no matter what but I totally agree that higher users should be able to move posts.

In worth, when posts are moved it leaves a note saying moved. In here you could have a note that says 'Added as link to ....... post.' then the moved post deletes itself after a certain amount of time.
Or is this asking for overly long threads repeating the same comments? Hmmmmm.

(Milky puts lateral thinking night-cap on and goes to bed.)

Night all.

I agree with Alton. *Just an idea, but duplicate articles will become more an issue the more popular Plime gets.* Plime needs a research tool that can find posts by title or URL. Also, maybe I'm missing it, there should be a sidebar that lists who is logged in and how many lurkers are reading Plime. Just a thought. I've belonged to many web groups and that seems to be the standard.

You can tell who's logged in if you add them to your "friends" list. A "plime" fruit shows up next to their name if they're logged in.

Thanx hypno.

It works! :)

just wondering if there is any consensus on what to do with repeat articles as there are a couple in the weird section... I'm not sure if the similar story search is up yet or not.
maybe there could be a flag button or something (like worth)

btw awesome site :)

Click prune and choose "duplicate"

have been noticing a lot recently.
I can understand it happening from time to time, but when the story is already posted right there in front of you it just seems that the person is too lazy to check to see if already posted.

We have the google check of the site, but that isn't a lot of help for very recent posted items.

Maybe a Plime search would help?

Yeah, I'm seeing a lot too. I just keep clicking "prune" on the newer version, and let the admins deal with it.

what might be good is give the authors the ability to delete there own articles straight away, I did a repeat article before (pruned it as soon as I realised) but didn't find the earlier article because I put it under Science where as the other person put it under technology.
I now have to wait for a couple of other people to click and prune were as I could have just gone in and deleted it myself, it might also save the admins some work.

Personally, if the story is in a different category, I wouldn't call that double posting. It might actually be seen by someone who didn't frequent the original category posting.

true, but its still the same story and the other person did find it first, maybe once things get sorted out with the categories and that it might happen less

tons of duplicates being posted today :-/