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"Related posts" does not examine links in comments
"Draft loaded. You had edited this before but haven't saved it. We loaded the edits for you." has a bunch of related posts linked in its first comment thread, but the posts don't appear in the sidebar in the special green "Related Posts" box.
Is that intentional, accidental, or just planned-but-not-implemented?
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Already noted in a comment, but to expand a bit: currently the "related" section shows only questions that have been closed as a duplicate of the current one. We called it "related", not "duplicated by", because this was meant to be a first step. In particular, we've heard the feedback that people want to see what questions are closed as a duplicate of the current one to help in curating -- for example, if you're making a major edit, you want to either make sure it's still a duplicate or reopen the now-not-duplicates, depending. So we started with that type of related link, with the idea that there would be more later.
One approach would be to automatically detect links on the page and "promote" them to the "related" section. An alternate idea I'd like to explore is making this an intentional list. People might link to all sorts of things, especially in comments -- that doesn't mean they're related to the question. Rather than possibly overwhelming the section with not-really-related links, can we come up with a way for people to add links to that section explicitly? I'm imagining some scheme where anyone (or almost anyone) can suggest a link, and people with some ability to be determined can approve or reject suggestions. The ability doesn't need to be as "heavyweight" as reviewing edits or closing questions; maybe "participate everywhere" is enough, particularly if editors and curators can remove links, or maybe we can add a new ability.
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