Amalgamate duplicate suggestions

I ahev noted so far at least half a dozen suggestions relating to golf. All that I have looked at are locked. It would be far more sensible to amalgamate all the golf suggestions into a single topic, rather than having umpteen topics, all locked except one and no way to find out which is the active topic.

Why the contribution is important

Because it is sensible.

by Eladram on May 09, 2020 at 04:02PM

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  • Posted by JLMBD May 09, 2020 at 16:08

    Yes, there are a lot of the same things over and over.

  • Posted by Stephen666 May 09, 2020 at 16:10

    There's a lot more than golf in the duplicates. Some good, some as bad as you would expect in the tabloid online media. Some have clearly not read the report from the Scottish Government before writing.
    Particularly like the reason of the contribution "because its sensible".

  • Posted by JLMBD May 09, 2020 at 17:32

    Quite, there is a search box on the page too, all people have to do is search to find if their idea has been raised previously. There are many duplicates, golf, wild camping, holiday homes, motor homes, antibody tests etc. Just search it people!

  • Posted by GJBB May 09, 2020 at 23:35

    This is the same arguement as "collate responses" further down the list and highlights the issue!

  • Posted by DaveMac May 10, 2020 at 00:52

    I agree, there is too many duplicate ideas, reopening golf courses is one such example. These duplicates should be merged, to get a better measure of the collective level of support for what is in fact a single idea.
    Moving forward it would be better to implement some form of idea validation to prevent or at least reduce duplicate ideas. Adding paging to the comments associated with an idea would be beneficial, along with the option to display the most recent comment, first. Paging would also prevent length scrolling, to access the field to enter a new comment.

  • Posted by Arete May 10, 2020 at 04:30

    Absolutely!

    (And not coincidentally, all the excessive duplicates seem to come from a vocal minority with a very definite axe to grind.)

  • Posted by Slaurand May 10, 2020 at 09:02

    This would be more useful if you could also vote up/down on each comment. When the threads are amalgamated by topic there can be conflicting suggestions.

  • Posted by Slaurand May 10, 2020 at 09:08

    This would be more useful if you could also vote up/down on each comment. When the threads are amalgamated by topic there can be conflicting suggestions.

  • Posted by NHY May 10, 2020 at 11:30

    Also move the 'add comment' box or a button to the top of the list of comments. Scrolling through 400 plus comments to find the comment box on a phone ( which i suspect most are using) is frustrating

  • Posted by Scotland_is_flatlining May 10, 2020 at 12:51

    Moderators have a process to close duplicate suggestions before they go live.

    It is however important to recognise the different nuances of separate suggestions and avoid excessive grouping of ideas.

    The "Idea topics" associated with each suggestion will no doubt be used for further grouping and consolidation of data but it is important not to lose sight of the rich range of contributions.
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