Just a few suggestions for myLot...

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I just thought of a couple of suggestions that I thought would be good for myLot to adopt, but I would want some other opinions first. 1) Duplicate Discussions - I've seen this on Digg.com where after you post your story (in this case, discussion), it searches through all of the stories and checks the urls and topics for matches that look like duplicates and asks you to verify that it is unique before it is posted. This would only be for discussion topics, of course, but I don't know how many times I come across a discussion where someone is asking how much people make on myLot or what your favorite color is. There's always the report button, but having it before could help out both users that weren't aware of the topic already being discussed, and the myLot staff not having as many reported discussions to go through. 2) Putting the tags on the Submit Discussion page - This would make it a whole lot easier for discussions to get tagged, especially if it were mandatory to add a tag to the discussion. If myLot wants all their discussions tagged, then they should make it more convenient to tag them, rather than have the tagging page show up after the discussion is submitted. 3)An easier report button - I think it would be better if the report button didn't always take you to a page where you must type in what is wrong with it. (Again, like Digg) There should be some of the most often reported options come up when you click the button, like "duplicate discussion/response" or something, whichever are the most common reports received by myLot. This just makes it easier to report something that is commonly found on myLot (like the 50th discussion of "How Does myLot Work?") without having to type it all out. 4) Spellcheck - I know that there is a built-in spellchecker in Firefox, but it would be really neat to have at least an option to check the spelling of your discussion or response before posting it. I see a lot of spelling errors in discussions where people don't care about their spelling, but for the ones that do care that their discussions are spelled correctly, like myself, a spell-checker would make it easy to catch those one or two mistakes that you missed. 5) Editing your discussion - It would be cool if you could have at least a minute or so to edit or delete your own discussion or response right after you posted it, just in case you thought better of it or realised you had a few more things to add and forgot to preview the discussion or previewed it and decided after. These were just a couple of suggestions that I would like to see. I don't know if they would work or not, but I thought that I'd get some opinions on them from the community, because the community is what matters.