What's your idea?
Automated system which suggest already existing similar posts when you are entering the title of new post. An alternate approach would be to improve Drupal.org search so that people could find related posts before creating a new one.
What are the benefits?
There are lots of duplicates everywhere: issue queues, forums. This will be a huge improvement and also a must-have for dedicated support system if we were to create one on Drupal.org
What are the risks?
It won't catch all of the duplicates, since people often use different names for same things. An improved search on Drupal.org could help address this, as mentioned in the alternate idea above.
How can we measure the impact of this idea? (metrics)
Fewer duplicates.
Who directly benefits from / will use this improvement? (target audiences)
Project maintainers, forum moderators, issue queue users.
Are additional resources available for discovery/implementation? (volunteer effort, financial backing, etc.)
Possible solutions exist as contrib modules.
Comments
I'm still debating whether to
I'm still debating whether to vote for this or not. On the one hand, it would be AWESOME if it worked! On the other hand, it feels like if we don't spend a lot of intimate time tweaking our search index and testing and re-tweaking and re-testing, it won't actually work. :(
Has anyone successfully implemented feature on a Drupal site, and can speak to the difficulty of returning useful results on a site with a content base the size of ours?
https://drupal.org/project/un
https://drupal.org/project/uniqueness runs (or ran) on ixda.org. I think the results were reasonably good, but you're right that it could become a rabbit hole of algorithm tweaking.
Maybe it would just need to show 5 related results and then a link at the bottom that opened in a new window that showed "more content based on these search keywords"?
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That would be so awesome but
That would be so awesome but it sounds like a sci-fi feature. If there is a proven way anywhere out there I would +1 this.
I see this fairly often. For
I see this fairly often. For example, on my hosting company's site, whenever I try to post a new ticket, it grabs some of the keywords from my post, searches the site, then returns possible similar searches.
Really, we wouldn't necessarily have to tweak much of anything. We could use the existing search, and do a search on the submitted title to see if anything comes up, and show that. This could all be done with an AJAX interface to speed things up a little.
I know this thread refers to
I know this thread refers to preventing submissions of already existing threads, but on a similar note, that relates directly to the title, I believe that if the submit button is clicked twice in a row with comments (at least), the comment is submitted both times. It may be nice to disable the button using JS after it has been clicked once, thereby preventing duplicate submissions.
I guess this more of a dummy proofing? or a Work Around?
REMOVE the Post feature. and Have them use the Search Button 1st.
After the Result returns have the POST a NEW stuff be @ the End of the Search list.