We can encourage people to use the search function. We can have faith in the mods that when they come across duplicate threads they will close them and redirect traffic.

Other than that there is really nothing we can do.

Unless you want to front the cash for the hardware to handle that kind of automatic process. Not to mention that by doing so, you would unknowingly be eliminating threads that may be entirely different for containing the same phrasing or wording.

I think it works the way it is.

I think there have been a lot of threads on this very same topic.
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Originally posted by nyk537We can have faith in the mods that when they come across duplicate threads they will close them and redirect traffic.

Really? There seem to be a couple of forums where this doesn't seem to be the case here lately. In one case today, the thread was IDENTICAL.

Diluting information is annoying. Posting in a thread only to go to followup and finding yourself in a duplicate thread is annoying. I know that mods are busy, but with membership up this problem is also up. In addition, they don't seem to be responding to alerts.

Maybe we need more mods if the ones we have can't handle it or don't see the distinctions or the problem..