Duplicate posts

[JonRB]

I've noticed quite a few duplicate threads as the result of people clicking the "comment" button on news items.

Would it be fairly easy or "damn, I should have designed it that way" difficult to check if the thread already exists on the Gassing Station before creating a new one, and if it exists take the reader to it rather than creating a new thread?

It seems to me that the script associated with the button will try to create a thread with title based on the title of the news story, and this will be the same each time the button is clicked, so presumably it should be fairly easy to search the Gassing Station to see if a thread of that title already exists?

[PetrolTed]

A solution shouldn't be beyond me. It's just determining whether to append or create at the time someone hits the button rather than when the submit button is pressed. I'll have a twiddle.