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Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike
on Sep 18, 2009 -
42 comments
My Askmefi question only recieved one answer...I realize that this must just happen every so often, but I'm wondering, a) how I might avoid it, and, b) can I ask the same question again in the hopes of getting more answers? [more inside]
posted by Griffinlb
on Mar 15, 2009 -
67 comments
Searching for a url doesn't seem to work when the url is below the fold.
posted by homunculus
on Jun 20, 2008 -
30 comments
My blushes at making a duplicate post to the blue have been spared more than once by the code which scans my proposed URLs and looks to see it there is an existing match. Phew! However I have only ever found a way of accessing this facility after having first of all composed a post to the point where I can preview it - hence wasting quite a lot of time. Is there a way to access this scan directly?
posted by rongorongo
on Apr 4, 2008 -
19 comments
This is an example of a double that should have been left alone. [more inside]
posted by wfrgms
on Feb 13, 2008 -
38 comments
New post form's URL search is broken. [more inside]
posted by knave
on Jan 6, 2008 -
19 comments
um, i don't really know what to do about this. and i've got no general prob with the mods. but, as you can see, one of the mods has posted a question that has been asked before.
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posted by deejay jaydee
on Dec 17, 2007 -
125 comments
This is practically the same as this, and similarly vague. Double post?
posted by fiercecupcake
on Oct 1, 2007 -
24 comments
it would appear this is a double yet this isn't.
in all seriousness: may i ask after the rationale?
posted by de
on Aug 22, 2007 -
59 comments
Has this 1994 interview with Cheney, in which he advises to not invade Baghdad, been posted yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
I couldn't find it using the search feature, but thought I would do a pre-emptive check here and get flamed before a smaller audience if I'm wrong.
posted by mecran01
on Aug 13, 2007 -
46 comments
On the green... why do we have a duplicate post? As in, word-for-word duplicate
posted by dirtynumbangelboy
on Jul 31, 2007 -
7 comments
This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it. -- jessamyn
Huh?
posted by homunculus
on Jul 18, 2007 -
149 comments
Just wondering what happened to my Metafilter post (why it got deleted). Did I do something wrong? I checked my email and there was no reason given over there too. Sorry if I'm being a bother Jess; just wanted to know if there was something I could've done better to make the post stay up (liked the andaman site that I'd linked it to).
posted by hadjiboy
on Jul 9, 2007 -
35 comments
LOLMeFi
posted by brundlefly
on Jun 5, 2007 -
6 comments
Today's edition of what irks me: Hijacking threads with unsupported claims of doubleness. Either put up or shut up--don't shit on good threads just because you read boing boing and have a bad memory.
posted by null terminated
on Apr 10, 2007 -
63 comments
Okay. We've seen it. Now stop. The Pearls Before Breakfast piece has now been posted six times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in the last 32 hours. Is this a new record?
posted by Rhomboid
on Apr 8, 2007 -
167 comments
PonyFilter: It's annoying to click on the same link twice in a post. How about sending the New Post form back for the user to "fix" it?
posted by Armitage Shanks
on Mar 14, 2007 -
31 comments
An Immodest Proposal: One of the interesting phenomena I've noticed as other aggregating sites are on their ascendancy (can you Digg it?) is that many links that had been MetaFiltered long ago (in Web time) get a new wave of attention, which flows back around here, and BANG! Double-triple-quadruple post!. And how many times lately have we seen comments like "Didn't see it the first time; glad it was reposted"? Maybe what we need is a separate place for "Re-Current" posts or links, where we can acknowledge that WE got it months/years ago, and re-open comments on it. Obviously, such a sub-Meta would require a lot of moderation/maintenance, and maybe it should be an off-site project. How should it work? Can we/you make it work? Why bother? Any volunteers?
posted by wendell
on Mar 6, 2007 -
34 comments
Something weirder is going on. Things I do keep getting doubled !. WTF?
posted by rbs
on Feb 28, 2007 -
27 comments
For the record, this was heard previously, but never (unless someone can correct me) seen. [more inside]
posted by kowalski
on Jan 29, 2007 -
9 comments
This is what I get for not checking the front page again before posting. Sorry guys. Mattamyn - hope me? Make it go away?
posted by SassHat
on Dec 30, 2006 -
3 comments
you know...mine wasnt a double. it just happened to be on the same site. no big deal. I just thought it was kinda cool.
posted by ShawnString
on Dec 22, 2006 -
32 comments
I posted this double in large part because the headline for this post from a few days before was so cryptic that it passed under my radar. I'm aware that there can be no official policy outlawing cryptic posts (I'm not arguing for a strict policy, either), but such doubles are bound to occur when the front pages are filled with non-descriptive links. Judging by this and other comments in my thread, I'm not alone in wishing that folks would provide a bit more info with their FPPs. At the least, it could save wasted time on the part of posters and readers alike. Wondering what the wider MeFi community thinks about this.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Oct 26, 2006 -
49 comments
Shouldn't Matt and Jess be the ones who decide which posts are deleted?
posted by bonaldi
on Oct 26, 2006 -
77 comments
Reminder! NYC meetup tonight at the Double Down Saloon on Avenue A and Houston.
posted by gaspode
on Sep 27, 2006 -
24 comments
"hampster dance" just got deleted. it did look (after 17 comments) as though it was about to spiral seriously out of control, but matt could have at least waited an hour or two.. ok, fine, i'll go read about the military coup in thailand.
posted by dminor
on Sep 19, 2006 -
16 comments
I posted a question to AskMeFi and it is not there. I don't see any post about it being removed here...Can anyone enlighten me on its fate? "Thought Experiment regarding light and mirrors..."
posted by iurodivii
on Aug 23, 2006 -
11 comments
Okey fine. Then where? Is there some place on the web where DrawBall is being discussed?
posted by ZachsMind
on Jul 16, 2006 -
27 comments
My first double post. To err is human, to forgive divine?
posted by geoff.
on Jul 6, 2006 -
21 comments
Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought that this was the same exact post as this.
posted by I Love Tacos
on Jun 28, 2006 -
69 comments
Isn't this a double post?
posted by monju_bosatsu
on Jun 27, 2006 -
15 comments
My link to a site with a few hundred photographs gets deleted because it's supposedly a double of a 2-year old link to a post on some messageboard with but a few dozen similar pictures? What gives? (I've happily accepted the fate of unfortunate double posts in the past, but these links are not the same...)
posted by Robot Johnny
on Jun 15, 2006 -
31 comments
Twice now I have gone to post a comment and the comment has been posted three times. But both times, I only hit "post comment" button once. Can someone please explain to me why this is happening (and delete the excess comments, please?)
posted by Effigy2000
on May 24, 2006 -
18 comments
Number One has found the The Force
posted by snsranch
on May 23, 2006 -
5 comments
I posted a link in a comment on the blue. Can I repost it as an FPP?
posted by anjamu
on May 12, 2006 -
42 comments
A convincing argument for AskMe double posts.
posted by cribcage
on Mar 19, 2006 -
5 comments
Doubleposts and deletions; now that MeFi is a bit of a monster, rather than a very small community, is it time to perhaps do away with the concept of doubleposts, and just let topics stand? For instance, this post was deleted as being a double, although the comments and links inside were significantly more active and amusing than the original, which wasn't linked by the deleter. (As an aside, if we're going to make content disappear because of doubleposts, may I request that the deleter please link to the original topic?)
posted by dejah420
on Mar 14, 2006 -
33 comments
In response to the inordinate number of doubles recently (e.g.) which begin:
MeFite A: Look! This is my link!
MeFite B: This is nice
MeFite A: sorry, double, delete
[mi]
posted by NinjaPirate
on Jan 12, 2006 -
28 comments
A while back I posted a wonderful video for a song called "JCB Song". It went down very well.
I found out today they are going for a UK Christmas number one, and have added a back-story of their touching song to their site.
Im guessing I cant draw attention to this no? I'm dying for a decent xmas #1 after last year's god awful Band Aid thing.
posted by lemonfridge
on Nov 22, 2005 -
13 comments
I want to make an FPP (my first), but I want to make absolutely sure it isn't a double post. What is the best/most thorough way to check this? I have tried googling key terms but I get so many results that it would be impossible to search through.
posted by arcticwoman
on Nov 16, 2005 -
29 comments
Is it just me, or does the thread that contained the link to the British doc about White Phosphorous and MK-77 being used in Iraq no longer exist?
posted by Chomskyfied
on Nov 12, 2005 -
6 comments
Am I missing something here? Sure its a good link but its still a double-post and the poster himself states: "*shrug* sorry, I'm a sucker for his photos. I figured everyone who missed it last time would appreciate it and the people who'd already seen it would like to know he's updating again."
posted by KevinSkomsvold
on Oct 20, 2005 -
4 comments
The other one should be axed, not this one. I couldn't agree more. I know this has happened before- someone writing a well-crafted post is beaten (by about ten minutes) to the punch by a hastily-made, one-link post. I realize that technically, the "first" post wins, but shouldn't exceptions be made for cases like this? It's rewarding speed over substance.
posted by mkultra
on Sep 28, 2005 -
37 comments
So is there any kind of time factor dispensation for double posts?
I was emailed a link today that made me piss myself laughing, which I really feel the need for these days. I came here to post it but found it was already on the front page four years ago.
posted by CunningLinguist
on Sep 8, 2005 -
56 comments
Oh please....
posted by Necker
on Sep 7, 2005 -
39 comments
Tag problem? Searching for the Jeff Gannon thread to post this juicy update, I found this page, which says there's a tag but doesn't show it. I think it may be a tag for a deleted double post?
posted by CunningLinguist
on Feb 9, 2005 -
4 comments
Facts On Farts was deleted within ten minutes of posting. In point of fact, the double post alluded to was all about turds. I checked it myself. Is there some sort of automatic feature that sniffs out identical URL's? Because this was in error, even though I was warned before posting that it looked like a duplicate (but wasn't). FWIW, the fart site actually was written to address a lot of things that any reasonable person might be curious about.
posted by docpops
on Jan 31, 2005 -
28 comments
double post.
posted by brevator
on Jan 28, 2005 -
17 comments
Just because there's no good way to get a thread shilling a new piece of free software noticed once it drops off the top of the front page is no reason to make a further thread noting the addition of a uninventive feature that was missed in the original post.
Nor does that fact that KevinSkomsvold saved it by turning it into a discussion about the merits of RSS mitigate my point. IE: What is the best way to do it?
posted by bonaldi
on Dec 8, 2004 -
13 comments
I posted this entry that was deleted because "previously." The linked entry did not contain the same link and was marginally about the same subject. What gives?
posted by bbrown
on Aug 24, 2004 -
3 comments