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Auto dupe check on Reddit submit page

By Adam Kinder on Jan 24, 2008 in


This post is mainly to outline the concept I made last night. Reddit’s submit page is great: no clutter, easy to understand, etc.

But, one issue is that dupes are rejected after clicking submit. A great addition to the submit page would be a small 16×16 image, updated by AJAX, that would check a URL after you auto-focus away from the URL submit box.

A good submission:
586

A duplicate submission:
589

The user could click on the red X to be taken to the original submission.

3 Comments

  1. Calvin on 24.01.2008 at 19:14 (Reply)

    Some sort of text would be nice to go along with it. I could easily see someone believing the red x as meaning the url is invalid rather than meaning its already been posted.

    1. Adam on 24.01.2008 at 20:49 (Reply)

      I submitted it to reddit and was auto downmodded to 0, so they don’t like it heh

  2. Chris on 25.01.2008 at 22:44 (Reply)

    Perhaps they enjoy having 20 some of the same URLs posted to make their site “appear” to have more content?

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