ZeroHour Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 (edited) Hi You should notice a new similar threads box that appears when you type and subject in on the creation of the a new post. We hope this will help prevent duplicate posts but it is in testing so we may remove it in the future. Please post any comments/bugs here Cheers Edited January 21, 2008 by ZeroHour
webman Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Is this feature targetted at certain, selected users?
ZeroHour Posted January 19, 2008 Author Report Posted January 19, 2008 Hehe, I think we are all guilty of the odd duplicate post
john Posted January 19, 2008 Report Posted January 19, 2008 Is this a built in tool or one you have custom written or bought in?
kestrel1 Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 I have noticed this on other sites as well. Very good idea. It has saved me tying out a question on occasion. One site I can think of that uses this feature is the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org Anyway, keep up the good work guys.
john Posted January 20, 2008 Report Posted January 20, 2008 One feature I like, but im strugglign to find again, is one for VB where if your about to post a reply to a thread over a certain age since its last post it warns you and asks you to either enter a validation code or tick a box to say yes I know im doing this, I think its quite good for some areas to stop people digging up the past in say general chat type areas
enjay Posted January 21, 2008 Report Posted January 21, 2008 Nice feature - would I be right in saying that it is just searching the thread titles, though, and not the actual posts themselves? I just tried creating some posts called "duplicate post", which appears twice (three times, now!) in this thread, and it didn't find it, but it did come up when I started a new post called "similar post".
ZeroHour Posted January 21, 2008 Author Report Posted January 21, 2008 It works by using the vbulletin similar threads system. I believe its smarter then just title search but not 100% sure. Also when posting the similar thread system is batch updated to save server load so it may take a bit before the similar threads appear. Its not to much of a issue as a batch as it at least improves things currently.
ZeroHour Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Posted January 22, 2008 I just got the following thanks through PM for the feature which was nice Just wanted to say thanks for that feature, went to post a Q about recycling toners and ink cartridges and it pulled up similiar threads ( very handy ! ) Thanks again ! Very nice to hear the feature is working out
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