Sidebar for reported dupes?

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What you can do with dupes usually is:  
  • report them and do not say anything  
    But then people will not know and spam the comments wondering if it’s a dupe while the report is processed.  
  • add a comment:“dupe >>xxxxxx”  
    But then that comment will remain even when the pictures are merged, taking up space. Even if a moderator goes the extra mile and deletes the no longer relevant comments, those little red “deleted by moderator” thingies will stay there.  
  • add a “duplicate” tag  
    Less than ideal (not very noticable/informative) but what if it is a higherres dupe that’ll get merged forward?
     
    What I’m dreaming about is some sort of system where you can put a “dupe of >>xxxxx” comment that is visible to users and will disappear as soon the images are merged.
     
    Basically I’m trying to get rid of all the “dupe” conversation that is piling up in the comment section of older images as more and more dupes are merged back into them.
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Comments on images that are deleted before the merger is made are not copied across, so SOP for the team is to delete comments referencing the dupe before we do the merging, so you can’t even tell they were ever there. Sometimes we forget and you end up with comments referencing the dupe on the far side, but eh, things happen. Of course this doesn’t apply when the comments are on the image that we’re merging into (which usually means merging forward because higher res/quality image) so it’s not perfect.
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(We’ve also got some serious improvements to deduplication in the works, including improved management tools. Should cut down on this stuff massively!)
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