Seeing Double? How to avoid clipping duplicate stories

Thanks for the post, AnnieMole.

They don't call you Ms. Community for 'nothin!

Thanks all - glad you found the tips useful & yes Chango2000 I really pity those poor twins ;-)

i seem to have this problem quite a bit. but if its a new story i check under news and politics or earth and science to see if anyone's posted it already. however, sometimes i'll post something that won't get any attention but then someone will post the same story 2 days later and make the front page. whatever though, thanks for the tips. those twins are already wearing ties and vests? classy haha

thanks for that i always think my story is unique til I see it posted earlier makes me a little upset lol . thx for the tips

A search doesn't always bring up what you're looking for. Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, you post something that is a duplicate. That's why there is a delete function.

Happened to me just this morning.

Thanks RCS it's a great help if everyone can remember to do that. :-)

This is a good thing to do to avoid replicating articles as much as possible. Just use the search tool and see if yours or a similar article has already been posted. I am going to be extra careful about that in the future.

Thanks Larock - they are supercute twins. But like you I hope their parents didn't make them wear those outfits all the time ;-)

great post - and sweet threads.

i hope those boys didn't get their a$$ beat.

Thanks KefKef & cantucwearebrothers - glad you liked the post.

In the office we were debating whether the twins bore a striking resemblance to Beta_Boy but he assures us he was never a twin ;-)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!

I always feel so bitchy about this topic. Really...how difficult is it to search a few key words before you post.

I love it even more when I post something and then somebody who has connected to me posts the exact same thing and invites me to comment! HA!!!

Rarely do I invite connections to chime it...this time it's goin out to everyone.

That pic...priceless!!! =D

Thnks! I hate it when an article that I post weeks ago gets the same or more attention because someone else submitted it (that maybe because early on I didn't have great connections.) Or even worse, when the article was posted just yesterday and made it to the homepage. Then the same article comes up again by a different user. I hate old news.