Duplicate articles posted by different GS contributors

This one's less of a technical issue but rather more of a process/procedural one, but it seems that pretty frequently (like at least once a week) two different GS contributors will post basically the exact same article, usually within 30-60 minutes of each other. It seems to happen most frequently with new trailers for either movies or games, where one person might post the trailer as a new video and the other might post it as an article with some accompanying text.

Example from last night:

http://prntscr.com/c4wair

Duplicate articles like this seem to get posted at least once every week or two.

-Byshop

@Byshop: yeah, sometimes this will happen minutes apart, maybe they're both creating the thread when one posts then the other posts, mods like Charizard in System Wars do a good job keeping duplicates locked, I think preference is given to those that get their thread out first, it seems more like accident than people doing it to be a nuisance, though I noticed that's not always the case if say the first thread wasn't engaged by others and got bumped to 2nd page and back while others respond to a second thread, that's fine IMO

shouldn't the solution simply be to deal with it as it happens, lock the later duplicate? one problem I noticed is also it's easy to miss a new thread when it's been bumped down the list pretty quickly when people are responding to other threads, then the new one can take it's place at the top of the listed threads, might stay up their longer because it's got a catchier thread name and more engaging OP and gets more replies, sometimes people are like "we already have a thread on this", but sometimes the 2nd thread is the better more engaging thread and I think mods deserve discretion to choose which to keep open, however I think any moderation shouldn't penalize people if it's an honest mistake, just make the moderation, I think penalties should be reserved for people purposefully being disruptive and making duplicate threads that way

anyhow, worth mentioning about my other thread up about spam filtering, I'm curious if when mods moderate redundant threads that they're not mislabeling them as spam because it might have unintended consequences with the auto-ban spam filtering

This is not at all what I'm talking about. Duplicate threads we simply remove/lock and would not be a topic for Gamespot feedback as that's caused by end users and there are already rules in place against it. My post was about two or more Gamespot staff writing what is basically the same news article or posting about the same movie/game trailer on Gamespot's front page (as shown in the screenshot link in my first post).

-Byshop

@Byshop: derp, sorry =P

@Byshop: Yeah, the issue is that one is a video and one is an article. We normally "hide" the video version, so it can be found on the "Videos" page, but not the homepage, but occasionally folks forget. It's a process issue, not a tech issue. I'll remind the Edit folks about this!