Duplicate entries in online communities waste time and resources for both users and moderators. Users spend more time searching for information, reducing satisfaction and engagement. Moderators spend extra time moderating, taking away from other tasks and potentially creating confusion. 

Waste Time and Resources for Users and the Moderators.

Duplicate entries in online communities can damage the quality fo content available to user. They can harm content quality by creating confusion and inconsistency in the information presented to users. Furthermore, they can also amplify the spread of inaccurate information, potentially leading to the rapid spread of misinformation.

Duplicate Entries Compromises Content Quality

Duplicate entries in online communities can exacerbate conflicts among users. When users engage in duplicated discussions, it can lead to differences in opinion or misunderstandings that may escalate into conflicts.

Exacerbating Conflicts Among Users

Duplicate entries can harm an online community's reputation by creating a sense of disorganization and low-quality content. When users encounter multiple copies of the same information or inconsistent information, they may question the reliability of the entire community. This can create a lack of trust and credibility in the community, reducing user engagement and participation.

Effect of Duplicate Entries on an Online Communities' Reputation

- Content quality control
- Limit resource cost
- Limit conflicts among users
- Protect Reputation

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There is a significant amount of information available across various mediums such as articles, books, websites, and videos, but many of them merely repeat the existing knowledge already available in other sources, and cover the same topic. This does not mean that the media is a 100% copy of another, but the topic of the two knowledge entities is the same.

Duplicate knowledge entities in Online Communities

Why do online communities discourage generation of duplicate entries?

- Disconnected Knowledge Entities
- Stand Alone Learning Content

Causes of Dupicate Knowledge Entities in Online Communities 

Duplicate knowledge entities can be used to create an illusion of credibility, where false or misleading information is repeated enough times that it becomes accepted as true. This may create the perception of consensus and credibility around false or misleading claims. This is particularly problematic in the case of disinformation, where the intent is to intentionally deceive or manipulate an audience.

Duplicate knowledge entities --> Vulnerability to Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Communities

- Stack Overflow
- Quora
- Reddit
- Wikipedia
- etc

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