# Some statistics about topics NOT created?

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**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [26 Abril , 2013 22:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-statistics-about-topics-not-created/6186 "2013-04-26T22:40:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [11 Maio , 2015 15:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-statistics-about-topics-not-created/6186/3 "2015-05-11T15:51:10Z")

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Awesome idea, @PabloC! 😍

Ironically enough, I can tell you I just did not create 2 topics thanks to it. One was a duplicate from this, the other one [about `/email_preferences`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reference-generic-preferences-link-solved/12223/7). 😃

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> nor can I think of a way to get them off the top of my head.

What do you mean? How about just checking if user clicked on any “similar links” and then canceled the new topic, at any point in time? It shouldn’t be too hard to at least think of ways! 😮

I’d be interested in making it happen even into the interface if you tell me this is something you might accept a PR on. 😊

But I do have an awful history of wanting to do PR’s (to discourse) and never following through.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> If anyone has ideas on improving it

Just like with stackoverflow, I often use this instead of searching, as it works so much better.

Why not having a link to “more” and then a page full of similar results?

As for background work, if users and mods could mark topics as duplicated (or at least _related_) it would make awesome data for this feature to find similar topics.

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