lionleaf
Prevent duplicates
If a user tries to submit a dweet that already exists (i.e. the code is the same), then that dweet should not be accepted as a new dweet, and the user should get a message explaining why
As protection from blatant dweet-stealing or some other reason? Is this a problem at the moment?
But are those cases bad? Are you referring to your own repost, or someone else literally copy pasting another dweet without change? And does it matter if there are equal dweets out there?
I created this issue when somebody reposted one of my dweets. It was identical and just above my dweet in the "new" stream, hence I thought that the duplicate dweet didn't add any value and I deleted it (being a member of the moderator staff). My thinking went something like "we should automate this" and I created this issue, thinking it would be easy to implement.
The feature also prevents
- erroneous double posts, which has not been an issue yet (AFAIK)
- people from posting the example code (which has happened)
I agree that this is unfortunate. However, it will be easy to get past a block on equal dweets.
A better solution might be a "This dweet was first posted by: iverjo link to dweet" or something similar.
Duplicates of their own dweets or someone elses? What is the cause of this do you think? Is it intentional? Same person? New people experimenting with the site? People wanting to steal credit could easily get past a filter by changing small things
Mainly duplicates of the default template and duplicates of other users' dweets. Several users have done this. I think it's just people experimenting with the site. Don't think they are trying to steal credit.