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Same article posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032

by kawera 11y ago

Dylan16807 11y ago
I'm sorry you didn't get upvotes out of randomness or timing but it doesn't help to link a previous submission with no comments.
- kawera 11y ago
  Thanks but I'm not looking for upvotes, I just wanted to signal that the dupe detector isn't working very well since it's the same title and url and have been posted only hours before this.
  - Dylan16807 11y ago
    The dupe detector has been weakened on purpose.
  - dang 11y ago
    Please see the FAQ. It doesn't count as a duplicate until the story has had significant attention on HN. If we didn't have this rule, many good stories would go unnoticed because there's so much randomness in what gets liftoff from /newest. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Edit: One side-effect of our recent experiments in resuscitating solid articles is that it increases the number of reposts in the story stream. Given the number of comments we've seen about that, it seems users don't like this, so we've begun working on an alternative approach.
- DanBC 11y ago
  Pointing to the five or so posts of this story helps to highlight the fact that New Yorker[1] gets very many duplicate submissions, most of which get very few comments / upvotes. Some other sites get similar beneficial multiple submissions. But many sites don't get this and repeat submissions just count as dupes. Look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com It's crammed full of dupes. [1] or NYT or WSJ or etc.
gus_massa 11y ago
This was reposted a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Making%20Insider%20Trading%20Legal&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Making%20Insider%20Trading%20L... From the FAQ: > Are reposts ok? > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. It's not very clear what significant means, but all the previous submissions have 0 or 1 points and no comments. I think that one problem with dupes is that the previous submission have some interesting comments that are "lost", so if I find a very interesting comment I quote part of it in the new submission.
- akg_67 11y ago
  I reposted the story after receiving email from mod requesting to repost. Your search list shows that I posted the same story five days ago and appear to be the first one. I guess mods are experimenting with certain stories that they consider good but didn't get traction.

Same article posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032

by kawera 11y ago

Same article posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483032

Dylan16807 11y ago

I'm sorry you didn't get upvotes out of randomness or timing but it doesn't help to link a previous submission with no comments.

kawera 11y ago
Thanks but I'm not looking for upvotes, I just wanted to signal that the dupe detector isn't working very well since it's the same title and url and have been posted only hours before this.
- Dylan16807 11y ago
  The dupe detector has been weakened on purpose.
- dang 11y ago
  Please see the FAQ. It doesn't count as a duplicate until the story has had significant attention on HN. If we didn't have this rule, many good stories would go unnoticed because there's so much randomness in what gets liftoff from /newest. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Edit: One side-effect of our recent experiments in resuscitating solid articles is that it increases the number of reposts in the story stream. Given the number of comments we've seen about that, it seems users don't like this, so we've begun working on an alternative approach.
DanBC 11y ago
Pointing to the five or so posts of this story helps to highlight the fact that New Yorker[1] gets very many duplicate submissions, most of which get very few comments / upvotes. Some other sites get similar beneficial multiple submissions. But many sites don't get this and repeat submissions just count as dupes. Look at this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=newyorker.com It's crammed full of dupes. [1] or NYT or WSJ or etc.

gus_massa 11y ago

This was reposted a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Making%20Insider%20Trading%20Legal&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Making%20Insider%20Trading%20L... From the FAQ: > Are reposts ok? > If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. It's not very clear what significant means, but all the previous submissions have 0 or 1 points and no comments. I think that one problem with dupes is that the previous submission have some interesting comments that are "lost", so if I find a very interesting comment I quote part of it in the new submission.

akg_67 11y ago
I reposted the story after receiving email from mod requesting to repost. Your search list shows that I posted the same story five days ago and appear to be the first one. I guess mods are experimenting with certain stories that they consider good but didn't get traction.