[greyfoxx39]

Sevenbak: I will finish the series though, for formatting and continuity reasons.

Revelation 911: as for reposting already open threads, have at it, youre a protected class here anyways

Ummm...I thought the RM said that the ONE thread being allowed as a duplicate post was a "special case"?

And, since the chapters are taken from the same source, just what "continuity" reasons are applicable?

I'm curious, just how many "special cases" are we to see? And, more to the point, how many are other confessions are going to benefit from the "special case" rule?

[Religion Moderator]

All moderators make judgment calls on duplicate threads. There is not a commandment carved in stone but generally one of the moderators on duty will pull an exact duplicate if it is posted too soon after the other one.

What constitutes 'soon' depends on the moderator, the forum, the news cycle, etc. A morning duplicate of a midnight post might or might not be pulled. A very similar thread on a breaking news item though not exactly duplicate, might be pulled. An earlier thread might be locked and linked to a later breaking news item - e.g. if the first was a headline and the second had the most activity. And so on.

Previously, the Religion Forum was not intermingled with News/Activism so we allowed some exact duplicates since the nature of religious debate is very different. Likewise we allowed some "caucus" articles to be duplicated for "open" debate.

With the forums intermingled that is no longer workable - so the handling of duplicates in News/Activism now applies to the Religion Forum.