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- zizzy, on 05/07/2008, -4/+78There should be a link under Digg stories, where you can click "Report as duplicate" or "Submit alternate source." If you reported it as a duplicate, you would be required to choose the Digg story it was a dupe of, and if enough people did this it would show up under the main story as an alternate source. And if you wanted to submit a story but it was already frontpaged, you could just submit it as an alternate source. Also, when submitting, the duplicate check would have an option to select one of the dupes and submit yours as an alternate source to one of those. It would discourage people from submitting dupes, because while a dupe doesn't have much chance of being noticed an alternate source listed with the main story would.
Each story would then have a section for "Alternate Sources" (possibly another tab, next to Comments/Blog it/ etc.). These sources could then be voted on, so alternate sources that are just blogspam will be buried and legitimate alternate sources will show up higher. It would help consolidate topics and prevent dupes from showing up, since people would want to get their sources linked on prominent stories and dupes would be found and changed to alternate sources.
(And I know you can already bury as duplicate, but this is a lot better)- PeaceAndKwiet, on 05/08/2008, -3/+4there should definitely be a "report as duplicate" option, instead of burying something just because it's a duplicate. If someone reports a story as a duplicate, and they submit the post which it's a duplicate of, any diggs which the duplicate has received could be added into the total count for the original. So if well-intentioned diggers digg a story, that isn't lost just because it turned out to be a duplicate.
- spinchange, on 05/11/2008, -1/+3a "dupe cloud" of related or dupe submissions (similar to techmeme) May the best source/coverage/post win!
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1As long as people can still submit it even though it's a dupe it won't work. There are too many egomaniacs that know they have a loyal following and they can eclipse the original story. There should be a ban on user accounts for submitting too many duplicate stories.
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