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I saw this on the listing of features over on forum-software.org and thought it sounded nice; figure since we're going ajax, why not have something that can search the db when a thread is being created for something with the exact same title then add a little message and blank out the submit button?


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or something that searches for a set level of matched words or similarities in the body of the post and suggests similar posts that have already been made,
I have seen that in a few places


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Originally Posted by Bad Frog
or something that searches for a set level of matched words or similarities in the body of the post and suggests similar posts that have already been made,
I have seen that in a few places

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Well I'd still think it would hammer a DB on a busy site.


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