Idea #9718: Brainstorm: Redirect Duplicates

Written by droetker the 10 Jun 08 at 08:35. Category: Brainstorm.
Related to: ubuntu.com. Status: New

Description

There are many duplicate ideas in the database which are duplicates of duplicates. (A->B->C)

So I suggest redirecting duplicates:
so A->B should automatically become A->C

So there is just ONE real idea and all dupes should be direct dupes of that one.
Launchpad does this in a decent manner.

If you like this idea, also look at my other ideas

Tags: brainstorm duplicates

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[Report a duplicate and merge its votes to this idea]

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Primož Papič wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 12:44

Agree, but I think this is totally in hands of those that report a duplicate. Or maybe Admins can redirect from one to another...
Anyway the problem is that there are some ideas that are actually dupes, just nobody knows of which idea or doesn't find it. So you could get two ideas with their dupe tree that would be dupe of each other, how to determine which is original? Do we classify it by time the first is original, or by votes the one with most votes is original or with the clearness of idea, idea that is the most clear in what it wants.
I do agree with you I'm just pointing out some problems that can arise.
+1

droetker wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 06:09

Yes, I mean admins. Or better, the brainstorm should check and resolve the dupe check.
e.g:
Idea #1079 Idea #1090 -> Idea #2124 -> Idea #1825

Funny,eh? And each of them has some duplicates, linking against each other and many others.
A complete mess.

There should be ONE main idea, ALL others should be duplicates of THAT ONE.

I Agree with you, Primož, that it is difficult to determine which idea is the "leading", but if Brainstorm had a mechanism to "line up" the dupe tree automatically - the "leader idea" could be changed easily.

Brainstorm Admins, if you need help, just tell me.

droetker wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 13:32

You are right. One good thing is that if an idea is marked as a dupe (like #1079 e.g.) you can't make another idea a dupe of #1079.
That's good.
but I would suggest:
If someone suggests a dupe - from THERE on it shouldn't be possible that someone suggests any idea as the dupe of this suggested.
Complicated.

But this would at least lead to a consistent dupe tree.

droetker wrote on the 17 Jun 08 at 09:53

Launchpad does this in a semi-intelligent way:
pseudo-prog:

if user_wants_to_mark_Bug_X_as_dup_of Bug_A

if BugX.ExistDuplicate

for $i in BugX.duplicates do
$i.is_dupe_of(Bug_A)

BugX.is_dupe_of(Bug_A)

;-)
you have to do it manually in launchpad - but ok, it's not that bad.

Craig73 wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 15:27

This should be automatic... I think the main problem is that there are too many duplicates and anything that can be done to reduce administration is better.

Then the admins can focus on exception cases.

Perhaps what needs to happen is instead of a paragraph people write sub-ideas and then when 'duplicate' ideas are merged - all sub points show on the main idea (even as a subsection) that people can vote on the sub pieces.

droetker wrote on the 26 Jul 08 at 18:16

If there would be a more fine-grained rights system some "moderators" could do this, and the admins would have less work.
I think this is planned for one the next releases (god knows when... ;-))

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