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How about a dupe check?
The only time I've noticed dupes is when the link is 301'd or uses a URL shortener e.g. A blog post is promoted to main Moz blog from Youmoz. I'm sure this is something they are working on but it's not an easy fix.
Yeah - it's a pain. This is also an issue with URL shorteners, so if you can avoid it, please do submit with direct URLs.
At a minimum the bookmarklet could chop off parameters so you didn't get a lot of cruft. Or perhaps just some specific parameters since there might be some ?=all-pages type of URLs.
My fellow Inbounders: ask not what your community can do for you - ask what you can do for your community.
+1 for you sir! One thing that would be awesome is to see more people checking "incoming" and flagging the bad stuff while upvoting the good (especially the unique, underappreciated content that isn't just standard SEO reading) :-)
Have you thought about awarding Karma points for people flagging spam? Might help a little. I have to admit I've yet to read anything on here which is worthy of a flag. Also how about bringing some "incoming" posts to the front page to give them more of a chance to be discovered?
Yeah I was under the impression that they'd got obvious dupes in the bag, even upvoting the original if you try to submit it a second time. As Chris says 301s etc are going to be more tricky I guess. Tad Chef - I hear ya, but suggestions were encouraged
Some good points in the article. I remember Rand mentioning some of those feature will be implemented later, like the ability to downvote (the ability to downvote somebody would be given to deserving members of the community). What I need the most now are the notifications when someone answers my comment or comments to one of my submissions.
We probably won't ever have downvotes - for spam or other bad stuff, we'll just rely on the flagging system. Downvotes can create a lot of psychological barriers to participation, commenting, engagement and contribution that we'd rather not deal with.
I did assume you'd discounted this already as it wasn't there at go live. I can see both sides of the argument for this feature and agree it can definitely hinder people putting their content up. Thanks for commenting Rand!
Loving inbound.org so far! I do agree with the point in the article about users having to remember to return to inbound to vote up the article or comment. For now it is probably not a big problem since most of the people here "get it" and will likely go back to vote or possibly comment in both locations. I guess the alternative is to have something like the stumbleupon bar.
Oh yeah, and since I registered with my company twitter account, I'd like to be able to change my username and avatar, or register with an email address instead... probably in the works. ~ Nick
Nick - I also thought about a stumble type bar just this morning but discounted it as being too intrusive, an "upvote" button on articles would probably be the best option in my view. Nice point about the basic account admin features too, I didn't even think about that. Too busy thinking about the "bells and whistles"!
We are working on an embeddable voting widget.
Cool. I don't much care for the menu bar idea like Stumble and I guess Digg is doing too, but even the most community conscious among us will wander off into the interwebs without remembering to vote sometimes. Inbound looks like it is going to be awesome. I am already finding so much more new info and so many new people. ~ Nick
I thought you might be :)