You see a post or a comment, and it's been discussed somewhere else already. You relate the two items by clicking the “relate” icon, then entering the target URL and pressing submit.
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The created relationship is visible on both sides and makes it possible to navigate back and forth.
I think this would be an excellent way to collectively organise ideas and hopefully reduce spam?
cc: @k00b
Here's a post from a Daily discussion thread on the topic of "related":
#16621
And there's also an issue in SN's Github repo, Issue #105 for an automated method that shows possibly related posts.
What I would also like to see is an easy delete button to remove your post during the edit period. I frequently see an article I find interesting, do a search to see if it's been posted already, and then immediately realize I am duplicating something already covered. I guess I'm not great at using the search function.
Good point.
Alternatively, I would suggest displaying duplicate posts together. They would still exist as two separate entities, but they get merged for display to the users. I hope that it makes sense.
We could even go a step further and create different types of relationships: