On: What does 'showdead' on my profile page do?

[pg]

It's not only me who kills them. There are a bunch of people (mostly founders of startups we've funded) who have editor auth. 90% of dupes and spams are dead before I see them.

Editors can also fix typos and replace linkjacks with the url of the original article.

[notabel → pg]

OT: What is policy (or general understanding) regarding near-dupes, i.e. submissions of different articles that all cover the same material?

(I seem to be fixating on this today--it's the metaweb/freebase thing.)

[danielha → notabel]

Submissions on articles that cover the same content should be fair game. The voting of the community should decide which article is worth reading.