Suggestion to help reduce duplicate posts.

[usonian]

Could there be a simple search, when someone makes a post, to check if the same has already been posted?

Reason: It's tough to keep up with all the posts unless you read every title, and "sometimes" people like me block obnoxious and sickening names. (Hint, rhymes with dump)

The search could be only over the past day or two, and in an OP, show up as "related recent posts".

Not that I want to make more work for coders!!

I frequent Hacker News, and often the first reply will be:
Duplicate Post of ....URL.....

side note: (pardon the diversion. It's just to show that there can be multiple posts without duplication)

I missed a really good post by highplainsdem because of "that name" in the title.
My "bad".

[NJCher]

1. sounds like a good idea

don't know how easy it would be for the admins, though.

I just do a quick search using the headline if it's an article I want to comment on.

[dweller]

2. There is a search option

It sits at the top of my page (iPhone) that lets you search DU looks like this 🔎




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[Attilatheblond]

3. Yep. I try to search a topic before I make a post.

It's not that difficult

[usonian]

5. Some of us post too fast 😅 and I wonder if search results follow block/trash rules. I'll try, thanks.

Blocks are not honored on the home page, but not every article makes it there.

[justaprogressive]

4. This has happened to numerous posts of mine

...but usually it's so long since I posted it, the previous week,

that it probably reaches a whole new set of viewers...