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copperml
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April 6, 2023
Closed (Duplicate)

Closed Ideas: block from receiving new upvotes, hide from search

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  • April 6, 2023
  • 6 replies
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As the title says.

We receive a lot of duplicate Ideas, so we do a lot of merging. When we merge, we also close the thread in order to funnel additional comments into the consolidated Idea. But that duplicate Idea can still receive upvotes.

Adding on that, the duplicate ideas still show up in the search, and that discoverability might lead to upvotes on those duplicate threads.

We use the upvote tracker to see who we need to follow up on for each feature, so having new upvotes on closed threads makes it difficult for us one reliable upvote counter/list for each Idea.

6 replies

Manon
Helper ⭐️
April 27, 2023

Hi @copperml , thank you for your idea and feedback! This is actually something we have in the backlog already, so I am going to merge your idea with this one :) Thank you!

Manon
Helper ⭐️
April 27, 2023
Updated idea statusNew→Added to Backlog
Idea merged into:

All the votes from this idea have been transferred.
copperml
coppermlAuthor
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April 27, 2023

Great, thanks @Manon!

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Johnk
Helper ⭐️
March 5, 2025

Hey ​@Manon , the idea that this was merged into seems to lack the part about hiding merged ideas from the search function. Should I create a separate idea be created solely for that functionality? We have over 20k members and 20%-25% of our ideas are duplicates that were merged. It seems to be confusing some members and also clogging up the search bar. 

Contributor ⭐️
May 21, 2025

​@Manon I agree with ​@Johnk it would be great if merged/closed ideas could be hidden/automatically deleted to avoid duplicates.

Larry
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March 20, 2026
Discovery→Closed (Duplicate)
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