Duplicate word detection/removal.

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Duplicate word detection/removal. #23

Open nhardy opened 10 years ago

nhardy commented 10 years ago

Produce an error when an identical word has already been applied. Also prune existing duplicate words given certain conditions;

Prune least popular duplicate word with no branches.
If has branches, change parentID of children to higher voted duplicate, then delete.

sysr-q commented 10 years ago

This ties in #27, since this would involve pruning changes. But when you say "produce an error when an identical word has already been applied" - do you just mean Sorry, this word already exists here! so you don't get duplicates? Wouldn't that mean you shouldn't have to worry about moving children from DuplicateA to DuplicateB if you can only ever have one instance of a word?

Speaking of that, what about casing? That's always an issue.

nhardy commented 10 years ago

I'd ignore casing, and as for the moving of children, this would only be done for existing words with this problem in a one-time move.