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I think it would be a great idea to add a clear welcome message to new users that states that most ideas and stock requests have already got a thread and to search first

I was going to do this as an idea but found this thread on the search list

Seriously though it is vital to keep the forum as clean as possible and only dilutes votes! I did suggest a ticker option for stock requests which would also help.

Stock request by ticker name

Make the stock request system so that you can ONLY enter the ticker name in the header and then if that stock has already been requested it sends the requester to the relevant message. This would stop the duplicating instantly and probably please @beermoneytrader Maybe a dropdown menu of all stocks would work so that also eliminates wrong tickers. I am sure there is a source of all code easily available to filter into the list