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Are dups that big of a problem?

• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  They certainly occur a lot, and I personally find them annoying: http://searchyc.com/Dup?sort=by_date http://searchyc.com/Dup?sort=by_date The system already culls many dups, it would be interesting to know how many, by comparing the URL of a new submission with those of earlier. If you try to resubmit something then it counts as an upvote for the original. Try it. Pick something already submitted, then try to submit the exact same URL. I don't know how often it gets invoked, though, but the simplistic logic misses many dups. Of course, just because it happens a lot (for some value of "a lot") that doesn't automatically make it a problem.