And if you have a reason why duplicates are a good thing, please post that as well. I look forward to being enlightened.
I think there already is a thread about multiple threads....
Didn’t somebody already post a thread about this?
Please search before posting!
I seem to remember one of your earlier vanity threads taking on a life of its own....
Takes a real pair to make suggestions to the Moderators when you’ve been here less that 10 years. I don’t mean that in a good way either.
Does posting the same article in a different font count? What about posting it in another language, say, for our native experanto speakers? How about in braille?
And in Threads 7:22, "Have you not seen the "Obama is a Clinical Narcissist" post every month for the last 24 months?"
Ping the mods that its a dupe and let them act on it.
I must admit, a dozen “Coakely Concedes!” threads with no content was a bit much.
Sometimes I have limited time and can only scroll through the first page and breaking news. I can’t tell you how many stories I would have missed here on FR if not for someone posting a duplicate. However, on hot news days it gets obnoxious.
Good tips on how to cut down on them.
... you can eliminate all duplicate threads by going
here... http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/logoff
1) More moderators
2) Give the moderators machetes and temporarily ban persons incapable of searching to see if a article is posted. Flogging blogs with a story that has been posted? Off with their heads.
3) Give the moderators lots of good coffee
4) Tell them to “Knock yourselves out.
Yeah, no dupes because then Free Republic WILL RUN OUT OF ROOM TO POST THREADS! C’mon. people - get with the program!
Personally I don’t mind the duplicate threads.
Some of us don’t spend our whole lives here updating every every few minutes. A lot if useful information ‘falls off the screen’ for those of us who have real lives.
Too many vanity threads. But what the hell...
I think it show there is a healthy interest in this site. Would you prefer if due to a lack of interest some good articles went unnoticed?
It would help if we had a way to delete our own threads when it’s apparent it is a duplicate.
It would help too if we had an edit function so we wouldn’t have to repeat a thread to correct a spelling or grammatical error.
I agree that posters to a thread could post a link to the original thread. Perhaps then posters would know their thread is not going to receive the hits they hoped for and learn to do a more extensive search before posting threads.
This is a huge forum. I think mods are extremely busy keeping up with moderating inappropriate comments, etc. to keep track of every duplicate thread. I do agree that 4, 5, 6 duplicate threads take up too much space on front pages of News/Activism and General/Chat and are annoying. I usually go to the first thread posted, denying subsequent posters my view.
One thing I believe a lot of people overlook is adding keywords to posts. The search is driven by keywords first, so if they aren’t added, articles may not show up immediately in search.
Keywords should contain major words of title like names, events, as well as words that may help you find the article (eg banglist for gun related articles.)
See earlir thread.