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by dang 1081 days ago
You can't force people to do stuff like that.
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Right but couldn't that type of system be roughly accomplished by looking up the canonical URL and/or title from the meta tag (from a scrape) and search against the last posts?

Having a stronger policy on repeated duplicate offenders should be a thing. It just farms points that can be later used in a bot farm.

It's much harder than it looks and almost impossible to get consistently correct.