Reporting Duplicate process
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For the first time for me, I noticed a pretty clear duplicate but had never clicked on the Report Duplicate link. I had opened in separate browser tabs both the original posting from 21 weeks ago and the 2nd posting 1 hour old. I clicked on one of the report link thinking that it would be taking me to a form to report the IDs of the original and the duplicate. But that turns out to be not how the process is implemented. Instead it immediately reported the one I clicked on as a duplicate, leaving it up to the moderator to search out the original and duplicate pairing.
Would it not help the moderator to have the reporter of the duplicate give the ID numbers or at least the torrent title of original and duplicate(s) in a form that opens up?
OR request the reporter of the duplicate to click "report" on each of the torrents then the moderator decides based upon age of torrent (while still checking that it is meets the duplicate criteria.) I still think that giving the moderator a page with both original and duplicate will help in their efforts
Thanks,
youngla -
youngla, what you wish for actually happens but you need to get the process in the right order.
It's best to have both original and duplicate torrent pages open at the same time.
Then on the one you think is a duplicate, click on Report.
You are taken to a page to enter (copy/paste) the URL of the ORIGINAL torrent.
When you click to confirm your report the message is sent to staff which says the equivalent of "I am reporting the torrent from the page as a duplicate of the torrent I have entered in the box"
There is no need for the reporter to enter both URLs as the software tells the staff which torrent page you are reporting from. So they do see both URLs, but we don't need to. That's why they are staff
