Not showing duplicate entries on reading page

[lapillus]

Title:
Not showing duplicate entries on reading page

Area:
entries

Summary:
Make an easily togglable setting so that identical entries that are posted to multiple journals only show up once on a given users reading page.

Description:
I'd love a toggle, either on the reading page itself (easier to switch on and off on the fly) or as a reading filter (wouldn't require tweaking layouts to the way adding a toggle on the reading page would.)

What it's there to solve? Same post showing up five times in a row on a reading page.

Why it's the best? It may not be but they're the only ones I've come up with readily. Doing it on the reading page makes it readily accessible with all the associated advantages and drawbacks. Doing it as a filter makes it invisible (which may cause unnecessary panics) but also, I suspect makes it much less likely to be used or to restrict to a given level of user.

Problems? Possibly prohibitive CPU usage if direct comparison require. Probably not possible to implement except with entries that are identical except for posting location - might not work for comms that require different titling conventions, for instance. Someone might have forgotten they have it on and panic when they don't see a post in all the places they posted it resulting in calls for help.

Poll #1269 Not showing duplicate entries on reading page

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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Should be implemented as-is.
3 (9.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
13 (40.6%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (40.6%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (6.2%)

Comments

[triadruid]

Don't like it. I suspect this is looking bad right now because DW is still in the growing pains, so duplicative communities are probably more common now than on a 'mature' site like LJ.

[lapillus]

Actually the opposite is the case, at least when it comes to my reading. The majority of communities I belong to are fanfiction ones and once a fandom matures there tends to be multiplication of related communities and with it a multiplication of crossposting between them. The reason I suggested it is that I'm tired of getting five copies in a row of posts announcing the same story which is posted on the author's own journal with comments collected there. This hasn't been a problem on DW so far but is definitely a problem for me on LJ currently (there were three such stories just this morning). I don't think it's the sort of feature that would be of use to everyone, but for certain modes of use it would be very handy.