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thenewgreen  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Well-preserved 4000 year old human brain discovered in western Turkey

Pretty cool in the sense that we can learn more about the history of neurological diseases. -potentially. But what else can be learned from this? shout-out to theadvancedapes because... well, it's about brains.





humanodon  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was confused for a minute, because I read that article earlier. I have noticed a lot of double posts since "the thing". Is this an unfortunate by product of managing the heavier load?

thenewgreen  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Same exact site? There are often stories like these that get run on MANY different sites. If it's a different URL it won't get caught. Otherwise, DrMithrandir may have double posted, which is fine but is only something I ever do if I think it deserves a separate discussion.

humanodon  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's the same site but if we compare urls:

theadvancedapes:

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029373.000-human-brain-boiled-in-its-skull-lasted-4000-years.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2013-GLOBAL-hoot#.Uk74H8aTwap
DrMithrandir:

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029373.000-human-brain-boiled-in-its-skull-lasted-4000-years.html#.Uk74IsaTwao
So, it looks like both articles are from the same site, but the first one seems to have been viewed through an intermediary, like for example facebook or whatever. I don't know that it's worth doing anything to the "submit" field, but it might be nice to cut down on the double sharing.
user-inactivated  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk, this is a good example of something I mentioned a few months ago -- would it be possible to have the double post catcher learn to ignore the pointless shit at the end of URLs?

thenewgreen  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep, so DrMithrandir would have had no way of knowing it had already been posted. It happens from time to time. As traffic increases, it will obviously happen more. Still, I don't foresee it being a big issue so long as people aren't intentionally reposting content. Then I may have to pull out my ignore stick on that mo-fo.

DrMithrandir  ·  4062 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought I was been vigilant by checking #brain to see if this article was shared previously, but it seems I wasn't cautious enough. I apologise for reposting!

thenewgreen  ·  4062 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not a problem, it's inevitable to a degree. Thanks for actually taking the time to check the tag first.

humanodon  ·  4063 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It would be sweet if the comment sections for double posts could be merged, since good discussion could arise in both sections, but I imagine that would be tricky . . .