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Provide a way for users to eliminate/group duplicate images and display the highest quality one

Added on May 6 2:25

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This is more suited for the individual View Image page, but if there's a better quality version of an image, there should be a way to eliminate the lower quality version. If they're already on the Explore Images page, you could select checkboxes and mark them as duplicates. Or you could input the URLs of all the duplicates into a text box. If you want to upload an image that will be a higher quality version of an existing image, you could input the URL of the image you want it to replace--or you could do it on the View Image page. I would love to know if someone has uploaded a higher-quality image of an image I uploaded and this method provides a means of alerting you. In case duplicates are declared in error, the lower quality version wouldn't be discarded--it would still be available as a thumbnail link from the View Image page of the higher-quality version.

But it would be nice not to see multiple thumbnails of the same poster and have to open all of them to compare them. If you get multiple 'upgrades' of the image from users, just display the largest one or have a voting system break the tie if there are multiple duplicates of the same size.

I think if the images are exactly the same (in size and all aspects), the first one uploaded should be kept.