RedGTiVR6
04-27-2007, 04:02 PM
Our forum is a highly technical forum that has over 65,000 members and over a million posts.
Many times users come onto the forum and without searching they ask a question. Usually these questions have already been answered a hundred times over.
One of our members came up with a great idea:
What we need is a function that when the "search" smiley is used it automatically searches for similar threads and if it is a duplicate, merge the two together. Also needs to do it retrospectively.
While I understand this would be incredibly difficult to implement, perhaps it could be done in another manner?
Perhaps threads that are tagged as similar could be sent to a moderation que (but still visible) for moderators to merge?
Am I completely out of my mind with this?
Many times users come onto the forum and without searching they ask a question. Usually these questions have already been answered a hundred times over.
One of our members came up with a great idea:
What we need is a function that when the "search" smiley is used it automatically searches for similar threads and if it is a duplicate, merge the two together. Also needs to do it retrospectively.
While I understand this would be incredibly difficult to implement, perhaps it could be done in another manner?
Perhaps threads that are tagged as similar could be sent to a moderation que (but still visible) for moderators to merge?
Am I completely out of my mind with this?