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auto-link posts that are duplicates of this one
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When a top-level post is closed as a duplicate, that post shows a link to the duplicate target. This request is for the reverse: if a post is the target of one or more duplicates, please show those links on the post page somehow. I wouldn't use a notice in the body of the post (that would look too much like the close notice), but maybe we could add "duplicated by: (links)" below the post and above the comments, or as a special comment thread, or something else TBD.
I was thinking about this again today, and I think this would help with connecting related posts to each other -- sometimes there's some additional info in one of the duplicates that doesn't get edited into the target at the time, and seeing the list could help us pull information together. A "Duplicated by: (links)" block under the post and above the comment threads would suffice.
Agreed, but I'd put them under the featured / hot section - makes more sense to me to give priority to featured & hot posts
I'd split the difference -- featured is something humans said is "globally" important, but hot is auto-generated. Meanwhile, duplicates are human-identified as locally important, so they should get priority over hot.
I realize featured+hot is one widget now and this would entail splitting it. That might be worth doing anyway, so that later we could enable collapsing hot if people don't want to see it.
And on the other hand, it's also reasonable to say that stuff about "this post" is higher priority than other stuff about the community, so it should go first as proposed in the screenshot. Especially if we're going to use color to distinguish it (our "notice" formatting), that might make more sense.
So I guess I'm debating it too. :-)
it's also reasonable to say that stuff about "this post" is higher priority than other stuff about the community
Local is not always of higher priority than global 😅 (even though it often is). Compromising on splitting the widgets and keeping "features" at the top, then "related" (or "linked", etc), then "hot" works for me, though - @ArtOfCode-?