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And it would've been detected as such by this idea: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215

• tokenadult 17y ago
  Have you put your idea in the Feature Requests http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 thread? I strongly support beefing up duplicate detection.
  • Goronmon 17y ago
    In this case I don't really see the problem. The previous submission was from 8 months ago. I don't understand why it's inherently bad if a decent topic is reposting a couple times a year? It allows for people to catch an interesting article they might not have seen the first time around.
    • robryan 17y ago
      Actually it would be good if a resubmission includes the previous submissions comments.