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Yesterday's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319822 I was under the impression that identical URLs we
by jacques_chester 11y ago
Yesterday's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10319822
I was under the impression that identical URLs were rejected as dupes?
- dang 11y agoOn HN a post is only a duplicate if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. We do reject identical URLs for a few hours to avoid stampedes of popular posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- jacques_chester 11y agoI think I mentally crossed wires with Reddit. Is it OK to regularly submit twice in two days? I see that pattern with OP.
- dang 11y agoI think we invited eatonphil to repost a couple of stories. Reposts aren't necessarily a problem if the story hasn't had attention yet. On HN we want to optimize for curiosity, which means getting the best candidate stories in front of the community. Since /newest by itself does a poor job of that, we've been experimenting with other approaches.
- jacques_chester 11y agoWouldn't easier to give yourself a super-vote of some kind? It'd reduce thinly-veiled grumbling from jealous folks like yours truly.
- dang 11y agoDevices like that and/or rolling back the time decay on a post only work while the post is relatively new. Once it's past a few hours old, it looks weird to have it on the front page with only a few points. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325217 if you're interested. It'd be great to find a better solution and we're open to ideas.