Several times I've (unfortunately) submitted dupes. This is a bummer for me ("Wow! People will love this" -> "yes! it's getting votes" -> "aw #@*! it's a dupe"). It's also work for the person who notified me.



I'd like a quicker feedback loop (Ajax) for knowing what's already posted. A couple examples of what I'm talking about: betterfont, instant domain search



A very low hanging fruit: the submit page. When I paste the embed code, it could know if it's a dupe. (This might imply that the embed code moves above title) If a dupe is detected, I'm spared effort of crafting title and tags.

Beyond that, I'm imagining something which would return an HTML table with video name and tags as I search. I don't need all the other metadata (submitter,date,votes,rank) to know if it's a dupe.


Of course, you guys don't want to add to server load with keystroke-by-keystroke traffic. If the Ajax stuff is only exposed to submitters (1% of users?), the impact should be minimal.