If you want to repost an article as “open” then you must wait at least 4 hours or the thread will be pulled as a duplicate.
I don’t see a 4-hour rule as being particularly restrictive, but I would argue, for the reason I stated above, that there be no 4-hour rule for duplicating an article when it was posted as a caucus thread. That way the rest of us would have a place to discuss something of interest that we CANNOT discuss on FR anywhere because it was posted first as a Caucus.
And vice-versa, the caucus members would lose the chance to discuss a topic immediately within their caucus if a non-caucus member beat them to it and posted it open.
The purpose I believed of restricting duplicates was so we could all discuss in a single thread, rather than repeating the same arguments in multiple threads. That argument would not apply to the case there a caucus thread is posted, since by it’s definition we can’t discuss it together in a single thread.
So I would respectfully suggest that the rules be written such that a caucus-designated article can be immediately reposted in an open forum, and vice-versa.
It’s not like we are “religious” about the duplication rule anyway, every day there are multiple duplicates posted within minutes of each other, and it is pure hit-and-miss as to whether they get locked or not.
BTW, I would guess that for 99% of the caucus posts, nobody would WANT to re-post as open. So it’s not like I’m suggesitng something that would lead to widespread duplication.