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		aneesh on March 11, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YC: There should be a way to prevent reposts There could simply be a "report duplicate" link (where you specify which article it's a repost of) next to a new post for the first 1 hour after it's posted. If enough people say it's a duplicate of a particular article, then it goes off, and the comment threads are merged.

tim2 on March 11, 2008 [–]

Instead of dropping or merging the article, put a list (or link to a list) of "previous postings" somewhere very prominently on the page.

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