to the above and whoeverelsecares;
sigh... ok, start a petition for Free Republic to come up with a simple way of letting people know when an article has already been posted.
I get so SICK of people crying about an article already being posted when for 10 years it has been an issue. Either deal with it or complain to management. Leave people who are trying to contribute, alone.
btw, easy fix for FR, check through a simple ajax get if the link or title is already posted, and save people the trouble of going through all the fields to post something for the community only to get blasted by people that have nothing better to do. geesh, the Internet is now 10 years more mature than when this site (I have dearly loved) was coded.
The checking isn’t difficult. I have been doing AJAX, JQuery and now AnugularJS for years. (AngularJS only 2 years). I would do the coding for a greatly discounted rate just to modernize FR a little. I don’t like duplicate posts, either, but I hate the attacks on people that have taken their time to share an article (yes, I have been attacked).
Let’s modernize... at least a little.
/rant off. I hope I don’t get banned after over 15 years.
it’s called “search” “titles” in the upper right corner of the main page.