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Maybe; but why even start a second thread when it's just as easy to post a reply to the original?l3p3r wrote:It's making it difficult to follow the line of conversation, aside from that, who cares about a couple of duplicate threads when 90% of threads are spam anyway?
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OK, I get that, but you have that opportunity outside the thread. Why would you go inside the thread of one APOD to create a new thread for a completely different APOD.ckam wrote:It is to be used, once per APOD. Also, other astronomy-related questions were permitted, only not about same APOD.
I really don't care, it's just a suggestion.ckam wrote:in my opinion this whole problem of duplicating threads arose from designer mistake, namely, putting these two buttons together:
They have created the culture of people never caring about making extra topic.iamlucky13 wrote:I'm not sure that accidental missed clicks are causing many of the duplicate topics.
They will only notice if they will be forced to look for it.iamlucky13 wrote:hopefully new visitors will notice the picture they have a question on is already being discussed.
you will have to define a formal rule by which mods are supposed to make a decision if the treads are asking same question or not. so far, 2 people voted for this option, but noone has defined such a rule.iamlucky13 wrote:My personal opinion is to leave separate threads on the same APOD alone, unless duplicate threads are asking the same question.
Sorry, I know my suggestion is still pretty arbitrary when it comes to a mod making decisions. I don't have particularly strong feelings on the matter, but I thought I'd try to help by offering my suggestion.ckam wrote:you will have to define a formal rule by which mods are supposed to make a decision if the treads are asking same question or not. so far, 2 people voted for this option, but noone has defined such a rule.