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Ok, this may be too processor intensive or something for it to be practical.

but do you think it's an idea that, when people "ask a question", the server will automatically do a fuzzy (or whatever) search for threads that have a similar title and then ask them if they really want to ask this new question?

maybe this will reduce the duplicate questions being asked all the time.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

just put the goddamn search on top of the page

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if anyone is working on stuff like this, now that Alan has gone.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha fe zaffe so otm

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe people should have to type out a tedious paragraph to prove their worthiness to start threads?

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 20 May 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

don't they usually do that already?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

just put the goddamn search on top of the page

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES

― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the difference?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a little search box on the top of my page. I wish it defaulted to searching "this board" rather than "google", though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Where did Alan go?

I've never seen the problem with duplicate threads really, I mean people have the same conversations every day.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

He got fed up with this place...which seems fair enough.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that's a damn shame.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be nice if search was on the top of the page. I'll lock or delete a new thread if it's a dupe AND the 'original' thread was on New Answers recently (where recently = I remember it, not exactly foolproof). And that action is certainly not meant to rebuke anyone or make them feel foolish, merely to point them to information that they presumably were looking for. I think searching for and reviving threads is good, and we should encourage this habit, but it's not something I'm going to get bent out of shape about either.

That said, if I had the skillz and some spare time, Ken's idea might be a fun project to play around with! But ultimately it's way down on the list of priorities.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My home ISP was having issues this past week, I'll see if I can sneak in this long weekend around the FA Cup.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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