SN Feature Proposal: Enforce Link Post Uniqueness (timeboxed)
321 sats \ 8 comments \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 10 Mar 2023 meta
This feels like something that would traditionally be handled by content moderators on platforms like Reddit.
Basically, I've noticed that whenever Bitcoin Magazine (or some other Bitcoin new platform) releases a new article, many users will post link posts to the same URL within the span of a few hours. Personally, I am of the opinion that users sharing links (especially new articles) should check Recent before submitting their post. But, asking folks to do that is not foolproof.
Instead, I think it would be handy (and reasonably doable) to essentially implement a check on Link Post submission to only allow the first post for a given URL, for a certain period of time (1 hour? 4 hours?). In other words, for every link post submitted, check all other link posts submitted in the past x hours, and if there exists a link post for the same URL, deny the new post.
I think this would help concentrate conversation on the first post for the given thread, instead of separating discussion in several threads on the same exact topic.
Thoughts?
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34 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 10 Mar 2023
Yes, dupes are very annoying and many posters here just drop them, ignoring if there are already posted, just for the sake of stealing others sats.
Also many ignore that can FW the sats to OP when they post somebody else content and they have an account on SN. That is totally NOT fair.
Also posting links with sharing / tracking codes is really annoying. Guys, NEVER post a link that contain any code after /? or =. That is tracking code. I know that some will really want to have some SEO results, but, I personally, prefer to remove all the codes after /? and browse the clean link.
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3 sats \ 2 replies \ @kakocuro 10 Mar 2023
Perhaps SN could do some basic auto cleaning on the url. The most obvious ex: Utm_source etc. @k00b
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10 Mar 2023
Happy to merge such a PR. We strip them on twitter links already but some websites use GET parameters for more than just tracking ... so stripping them all doesn't make sense.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi OP 10 Mar 2023
Yea you have to be careful not to break the link
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 10 Mar 2023
I think the balanced approach is
  • Let users submit another of the same link, but it should cost more, especially if the link was posted more recently (I thought this was implemented already?)
  • In both posts also show reference to the other post, e.g. expand the "related" section with "Link was also posted under XXX")
So this both creates more sats income to SN for undesirable behavior (reposting same link) and it let's posters compete for who posts the best and it lets the readers to have full context and see all available threads.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi OP 10 Mar 2023
I like this proposal.
Edit: I do see this:
post duplicates When you post a story that has a highly related title to something else that's been posted, you'll see a 'similar' section underneath your post.
This is a soft nudge to not repost a similar story. We might do harder nudges depending on how this goes.
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I was not aware of this. Perhaps the nudge is too soft ;)
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @k00b 10 Mar 2023
The only problem with this is sometimes someone posts a link with a bad title or at a time when no one sees it - and reposting it makes sense.
The meta-problem we run into regularly is that with a poorly specified rule, you end up "ruling" out positive behaviors along with the negative behaviors.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi OP 10 Mar 2023
Yea, that's a fair point. Definitely something to consider that I hadn't - the first post isn't always made "correctly".
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