Duplicate Checking on the Title of Submission
Duplicates have always been a problem on OzBargain. When a hot deal hits your inbox, it’s hard to resist the urge of posting that to OzBargain to share that with your fellow bargain hunters in Australia (and get voted up in the process). However having multiple entries of the same offer, i.e. dups, would usually just confuse the other members and dilute the discussion. Therefore we have always been encouraging our members to search first before post. However that has been hard to enforce.
Earlier this week we have pushed out some code changes to do full text search on the title field to check whether there exists similar deals from the last 30 days, and prompt the submitters to look them up to avoid duplicates.
Hopefully that will cut down the number of dups and make moderators’ job easier. Thanks to moocher to get that developed.