Idea
#319: Mark duplicate ideas and delete one of them or merge them
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Done!
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Written by afita the 29 Feb 08 at 00:34.
Category: Brainstorm.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: Implemented
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Description
Brainstorm should offer support to marking an idea as a duplicate of another and delete the one with the lowest score or merge them.
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afita wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:36
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I just noticed that when you acces an idea to see it's comments there is a menu that does just that. Sorry for this, but still, the "Report duplicates" link should be made more visible.
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cedric.berger wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 11:20
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what about resolved ideas ?
vote against them does not reflect their popularity, and they must stay reachable.
but is there a "resolved" status ? And who would activate it ?
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elias1884 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 15:32
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The votes should actually be merged as well: Total number is all users who voted for either one or both. This is not equal to just adding up all votes from idea A and B.
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brettalton wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:06
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Also need to mark ideas as "Already implemented in Hardy", and then in the future, Hardy+1, etc.
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aaaantoine wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 18:10
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This idea is duplicated elsewhere on the Brainstorm site.
I'd call it irony, but it was not at all unexpected.
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simon147 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:19
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It's great that this webpage has been launched.
But I agree that this is the most important point that should be added.
Simon
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martinw89 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:47
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Yes, on launchpad there is a quite diligent effort on marking duplicates. Also, on the forum it will offer possible duplicate threads to read before you actually submit a new one. A combination of both (people who volunteer to mark duplicates and idea suggestions) would be really useful here.
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elias1884 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:31
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The description of this idea sucks! Please copy the more detailed description about how it should work from http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1508/
I paste it here as well, as it seems changing descriptions is broken.
Merging two or more Ideas should also merge the votes, not just go with the higher number.
Merge unlike add-up.
Not the votes are merged but the number of users who voted for either one of the ideas.
Example:
User A voted for ideas 1, 2, 3
User B voted for ideas 1, 2
User C voted for idea 1
That would be:
3 votes for idea 1
2 votes for idea 2 and
1 vote for idea 3
Makes 3 votes for the merged idea (not 6).
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Estesark wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:51
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Doesn't brainstorm already do this?
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 nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 09:54
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Yes, since the beginning :) But it seems the menu item is not noticeable enough...
And don't worry, I made the algorithm smart, like elias1884 described it!
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cosmic wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:36
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Perhaps descriptions should also be merged. Otherwise the entire merged idea would be advertised by the author of the idea with the most votes. Using this post as an example, that is not optimal.
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cosmic wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:40
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The algorithm might be smart, but the presentation of the related data is not. Many open questions remain:
How many posts where duplicate of this one?
What were their titles?
What were their descriptions?
Who now has authorship of this idea?
Why can't the authors of the duplicate ideas (who now have thier ideas unpublished) have any editorial control of the idea that they contributed to?
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yman wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:01
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What if two ideas are not duplicates? whatever happens, you would want to be able to reverse what you did.
The following idea of mine has erroneously been marked as a duplicate:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1159/
In fact, I'm going to open a new idea, of how about not marking similar sounding, yet totally different ideas as duplicates.
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yman wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 20:22
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Here it is:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2840/
Please vote in favor of this idea so that maybe this farce would end and my very original idea wouldn't be marked as a duplicate of an idea which basically calls for more of the same, with improvements.
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