yeah, there have been more and more.

I noticed that the shelf life of a story can be very short if the category is popular.

If the story is no longer displayed and someone reposts the story should it be pruned as a duplicate story?

I have noticed a few of those so was wondering...

Personally I think those are ok as there may be someone who hasn't seen it and may be interested. I would like to see a delete button though for these dups, maybe only for the author. One could comment that it is a duplicate and then the author could have the ability to delete.

yeah, that is what I figured.

I've been a victim and a perpetrator of this, and I think the idea that the author could delete the story once it's been pointed out as a dupe is a good one.

I'd also ask folks to be a little less clever in headlines--I try to search Plime for stories before I submit them, but I ran right over the one that I duped because the headline wasn't all that helpful.

Another idea might be to have a "merge" feature that puts the dupe as a comment under the original (and perhaps transfers the score, too. Yeah, that's the ticket!)

Headlines might be a bit misleading, however the synopsis will usually tell us more.

(although some purposely say very little just to get people to click out of curiosity)

I am beginning to think it is a moot point. I have seen a bunch of reposts. Some I commented on, others I have not. All that I've noticed I clicked "prune" but it doesn't apprear anyone (or not enough) is doing likewise. I have yet to see a single repost be pruned.

Not exactly a big deal of course

Is a duplicate the EXACT same link or the same subject?

For example, can three articles on the Yankees win (ESPN, FOX, CBS) be placed?

I would think this is OK, and more critical in the politics area where one news channel may have a different political view than another.

I would think if it is the same story it is a duplicate even if it is a different source.

Most times the story will be the same. Yes, different newspapers might have different slants, but show them as a reply to the original article.

Otherwise we could have 1,245+ articles on the same story all from different news spources. Would be rather repetitious

Yea, alot of times it's the same Rueter or AP article. They kust get passed to all the different sites, but are pretty much the same article.

Do the duplicate articles get knocked off if enough people prune it? I never saw the final word on how to deal with them, so I've been pretty much leaving them alone.

It will become a bigger problem as Plime grows though.

I've clicked the prune link on a few occassions, but only when it looks pretty obvious - like when there's a story near the top of the "popular news picks" tab and I see the same story with a different headline under the "all new picks" tab.

I have seen where stories get merged. I posted a story about the "Iron Man" movie and someone else posted the same thing afterward with a better picture. His picture ended up being moved to my submission and his link was removed.

I've given up on selecting pruning for duplicate stories. There's so much site activity, I may have *thought* it was a duplicate, but it's possible it has slid off the page by then.

if the story is saying the same thing in a different way they i would see it as a duplicate, maybe the best thing to do would bet to submit a comment with the other links in there