I think that the courteous thing to do would be to let the poster discard it. I know there was a clip a while ago someone called a dupe on but the two, though on the same subject, were nothing alike.

But sometimes the original submitter will not take it down or ignore it. I think the submitter should be given ample time to remove the dupe and if not done then it's ok for a goldie.

I think either the user should do it, or make it a +ban type system that requires an initial *dupe invocation, and only then it can be *discarded by someone else.

Discarding this post - discard requested by member MarineGunrock.

Oh shit! My bad. I totally forgot about that!

*save? *resurrect? *revive? *vivify?

Bad siftbot, *return?

Only videos that have been sent to Sift Talk for discussion may be returned - ignoring return request by jimnms.

Ok, how about *discuss then?

[resurrected]

Seems fine to @discard as long as you're sure- with a link to the original.

One of mine was marked dupe recently. Not fun but facts is facts.. better to get it over with.

Haha, nice bug on * discard in SiftTalk!

Yea, I agree with this issue. *quality ... What's the proper manner? I used to discard others' dupes, but not anymore.

Awarding jimnms with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by ant.

With a few exceptions it seems that whenever I just give a dupe link and don't discard, the post just stays up there and people continue to vote/comment. I agree with winkler1, better to just get it over with. But only if you are sure it is an exact duplicate. If one of my videos was a dupe and someone discarded it I would not be offended as they would be doing me a favor.

I agree with MG's idea to make this similar to banning. If someone finds a dupe, they should mark it as dupe, which would immediately send it to SiftTalk for discussion. Then, if someone else marks it eight, dude... I mean, if someone else marks it a dupe, then BAM! it's gone. That could help keep trigger-happy goldies from kicking out a non-duplicated dupe.

When you find a dupe, and the original works, you discard the dupe. There's no reason to create more work for other people here.

We've understood this from the early days of the Sift.

There is no gray area when the original works.

I'm with dotdude on this. If I find a dupe in the queue and I'm sure it's a dupe then I will post a link to the original and * discard the dupe.

I have also seen video's that I knew were dupes and the original happened to be in the Dead Pool. I feel that the dead video should be fixed and the 'new' dupe should be discarded as well.

I've had similar experiences as twiddles as on some occasions when I have tried to be more 'polite'. When I have only posted the fact that a video is a dupe and a link to the original without discarding, a lot of times nothing will be done and I will come along later and discard anyways.

When someone does it to one of my video's I only feel bad that I didn't catch the dupe, not that someone went and discarded it on me. I'd rather it be gone quickly so as not to clog up the queue any more.

It would be nice to have a type of vote merge or something for cases when a dupe slips through and receives a lot of votes that the original didn't get...

The original poster discarded one of my posts that was a dupe (of course I had looked, but it wasn't that easy to find), and what I did in response was to thank him.

And I agree with the other person who said if you just say it's a dupe, no one does anything most of the time. When I got the power, I several times left comments saying, hey, this is a dupe, and nothing happened, until I went back and discarded it.

I don't think the system is broken, and I think anything that clutters up sifttalk more is not a good thing.

But, what if I want to queue this video, would it be considered a dupe? Would you discard it.

I usually always provide the link and if it is a goldie or above I let them discard it themselves. If it is newer members I just discard it.

"I have also seen video's that I knew were dupes and the original happened to be in the Dead Pool. I feel that the dead video should be fixed and the 'new' dupe should be discarded as well."

That brings up another question, when I go to post a video, I search for it first to make sure it hasn't already been posted. Does it search the dead pool by default or do I need to manually look there to see if it's dead.

It will look in the deadpool as part of its search for similar matches to show on the submission page. But unless you search from the advanced search page, search will not return any videos in the deadpool.

If its a dupe, leave the link and discard it.

NEXT

But, no seriously everyone, what if I want to queue this video, would it be considered a dupe? Would you discard it.

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I have no friends.

blankfist, huh? your ^ ^ ^ link is 404.. I don't get it..
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