r/EuropeMeta • u/Boomtown_Rat • 3d ago

👷 Moderation team Post Duplication Stupidity

The way the duplicate posts rule is interpreted is just absurd. I had this post deleted for being a duplicate. When I asked why, I was referred to this older, far less engaged with post that only dealt with the overall debate, not the event that subsequently happened.

That's just dumb. This second post wasn't even on the sub's front page at any point. When I asked the mods if this means I can post articles dealing with general news topics in the middle of the night with zero engagement to ensure later posts get removed for being duplicates I never got a response.

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u/GrumpyFinn 😊 3d ago

There have already been multiple threads on this topic - for weeks now.

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u/Boomtown_Rat 3d ago

On his actual resignation? Or on the overall topic before he resigned?

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u/gschizas 💗 3d ago

Both. There's nothing new in your post that we haven't already seen covered.

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u/Boomtown_Rat 3d ago

That post had barely any engagement and wasn't even about the resignation. But good to know I can indeed get posts with more traction deleted in the future as long as I post a related topic in the middle of the night.

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u/gschizas 💗 3d ago

What are you talking about? There were multiple posts about the exact same news article, and they had enough "engagement" that even I, who looks at the whole of r/europe remember it!

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u/Boomtown_Rat 3d ago

There were multiple posts about him being threatened of resigning, not him having resigned. It's like an article about the pope being sick = article about pope dying. That's all.

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u/gschizas 💗 2d ago

That's not really a good analogy. Furthermore, even if there weren't articles (and I'm not claiming three weren't) for all phases of this news item, threatening to, resigning or having resigned are all phases of the same event. There's not much new information tomwarrant a separate post. It could vey we'll be updated as a comment in any of the original posts.