Lenticulations post appears on Metafilter as well as Projects

December 7, 2006 8:18 PM

Okay, so e.g.,this project also appears on the main site. But on the projects page there's still a [post this to mefi] link.

It would be really great if the site could recognize when a post is made with the same URL as a projects project, and associate the two, so that a) the main post is linked to from the projects page, and b) [post this to mefi] does not appear anymore. The main site post could be marked up too ("by our own whoozitswhat").
posted by aubilenon to Feature Requests at 8:18 PM (6 comments total)

crunchland didn't post it from projects though. I could "turn off" the post to projects button if someone uses it once to completion, but I'm not going to check every URL ever posted to mefi before displaying it.

Besides, duplicate URLs should get caught in the auto double-post search.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:10 PM on December 7, 2006

Previously
posted by Partial Law at 9:12 PM on December 7, 2006

Holy crap, how did you know it was about to be double-posted?
posted by Partial Law at 9:23 PM on December 7, 2006

Those images make me nervous.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:26 PM on December 7, 2006

I see.
posted by econous at 11:09 PM on December 7, 2006

Besides, duplicate URLs should get caught in the auto double-post search.

Yup: I hit the button, and the posting page said "The link you entered (http://www.chinesejetpilot.com/?ID=204) was found in 1 previous thread."

(By the way, the styling for that warning box still shows up with the default blue styling while using the plaintext theme, and is kinda unreadable, Matt. Minor, but.)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:16 PM on December 7, 2006