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Ask HN: How come there are 13 submissions of “The day I became a millionaire”
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20day%20I%20became%20a%20millionaire%20(medium.com)&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story
I thought multiple submission were caught.
- detaro 11y agoa) the algorithm was changed to allow multiple submissions if none has attracted discussion (I don't know if it limits the rate of submissions or not) b) medium appends these random characters at the end, making the URLs different
- brudgers 11y agoIn the past, people have added additional data to URL's in order to manually submit duplicates. If the submission algorithm was changed to handle multiple submissions differently, perhaps it was because it was already happening and encouraged a context of "gaming the system"...or not.
- orionblastar 11y agoThere are exceptions like if an article was voted up enough it is possible to post another link to it later on. I'm really learning this as I go as I caught an article that was what I thought was a dupe, but it was allowed to be reposted. I was voted down for saying it was a dupe. I posted a link that someone else already submitted, and I didn't know it was submitted already and then when I went to post a few days later about a bug fix in ReactOS I got the "Whoa slow down you're submitting too fast!" message. So I must have done something wrong with a dupe link and lost submitting link privileges. I apologize for that. I searched for the link before submitting it and didn't see it. Then when I did submit it, it was already submitted by someone else. It is a part of Hacker News that I am struggling with understanding as well.