A suggestion to prevent duplicate topics and title tags

Anatoly · 2016-07-08 15:04:08

Prevent duplicate topics

I thought, that Stack Overflow has a nice system which makes it simple to prevent duplicate topics: When entering in the Subject line, topics with the same name, or a topic which has the tags will appear here, so people see that there is already a topic about it: People wouldn't waste time to search before posting (But many don't even search before posting (like me)). I mean, why not??

Title tags

Basically like above to find more keys when searching. New Members (till for example 50 posts) can only use given tags (under the paragraph). A post can contain maximal XXX labels (tags)

Game Discussion: survey, serious question, discussion
Bots and Programming: release, question, request, bot, program
Crews: crew, builder(s), fun, political
Questions and Answers: business, help, serious question
Level Creation: art, mini game(s), basic, non-stop, W. I. P.
Rooms: basic, easy, medium, hard, extreme, art

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AlphaJon · 2016-07-08 16:46:33

The main difgerence is that the EE forums aren't a Q&A site, which renders the tags way less useful, and the duplicate can always be pointed at in a post

Hostage

Different55 · 2016-07-08 16:52:40

Seems like a huge butt load of work just to help identify duplicates.

Hostage, MartenM

Anatoly · 2016-07-08 17:34:59

locked on Diff's request

Different55 · 2016-07-08 18:45:58

I didn't request a lock but okay

hummerz5

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#1 2016-07-08 15:04:08, last edited by Anatoly (2016-07-08 15:04:26)