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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645 "We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs...[snip/].. A
by dhuramas 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
"We've adjusted the dupe detector to reject fewer URLs...[snip/].. Allowing reposts is a way of giving high-quality stories multiple chances at making the front page. Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it."
Considering that this second post got much more traction than the first, I don't see anything wrong.
- amyjess 11y agoBoth links were submitted within a minute of each other and were both on the front page at the same time.
- detaro 11y agoI don't think posting two links 1 minute apart was the idea behind this rule change.
- qntty 11y agoBoth were submitted by the same person
- dang 11y agoIn this case the same submitter posted two versions of the story: http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf http://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/10/27/x86_harmful.html Not a great approach; one ought just to pick the better of the two, which in this case is the html, because it gives more background, loads faster, and links to the pdf. General remark: I doubt that we'll make the dupe detector sophisticated enough to catch a case like this, but I do think we'll add software support for users to identify dupes when they see them. That's what happens informally already (as you all did in this thread, and by flagging the other post) so the shortest path to better deduplication for HN seems to be: write software to make community contribution easy. Also I kind of like the idea of giving a karma point to the first user who correctly links a given pair of posts.