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Originally Posted by NatCh
As promised, here is the outcome of the Moderation Team's discussion of what do do with this situation.
First, here's our "Rule of Thumb" going forward:
This is, of course, a general policy, it's assumed that sometimes specific reasons will exist not to follow it exactly.
Whether or not a new thread is started for posting on the Front Page will continue to be decided at the discretion of the Editor/Moderator handling the Front Page posting, and will take into account a number of factors, including research done by the Editor/Moderator, the formatting and layout of the "original" post, etc. In general, Front Page items need to be developed enough that they present a good "face" to the rest of the world.
Turning to the particular case we've been discussing, I have added to the original Front Page item a link acknowledging the original post of the information, and re-opened the original thread.
The Moderation Team depends a great deal on MobileRead's members to bring things to our attention, as we simply can't follow everything that goes on. Because we're aware of that, we want to properly acknowledge these efforts of our members.
We appreciate your patience while we worked out how best to deal with this.
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In this particular case, the original post would have made a better front page post. So really, there was no need for yet another thread. The original post actually gave more information then did the duplicate post.