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Admins, how did this dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764870 (11 hours ago)?

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empressplay 11y ago
I guess they decided it didn't get a fair run and removed it from the dupe checker? That happens sometimes...
DanBC 11y ago
(I'm not an admin. You probably want to email HN because they won't see the question otherwise.) In the past HN had a fairly strict dupe-detection filter. That meant that a lot of good stories that didn't get attention on the first posting didn't get reposted. Currently the dupe-detection is much weaker than it used to be. A story that didn't get much attention on the first post can be reposted easily now. HN tried an experiment where they'd email people and ask them to repost submissions, and give those reposts a small bump. That was a lot of work, so they only do that for "Show HNs". Now they do something like an auto-repost which resets the timestamp. This means that sometimes you'll post something, and it won't get much attention, and a few hours later someone else will post the same thing and it'll get upvotes. This isn't going to stay like it is. They're working on a better system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754760 >> We've recently started doing things to make the original submitter get the front-page slot more often https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753401 >> Invited reposts are mostly deprecated now in favor of re-ups [1], but when it looks like the submitter might also be the author (as e.g. with Show HNs), we still send them. It's nice for an author to know that their post may still get discussed, and it's good for HN when an author jumps into the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 (A meta post, with links to previous discussion).
- jstclair 11y ago
  Thanks for that! I knew they'd loosened de-duce up a bit, but this was ~10 hours.
- agumonkey 11y ago
  Interesting, maybe dupe shouldn't be a hard boolean but something more analogic. A dupe submit could be like a major upvote, weighed by proximity. 0h-24h : +100, 1d-12d : +50, _ : +1
- hidroto 11y ago
  could they make it so that the discussion in the dupe could be merged with the latest post as it is now people add links to previous posts.

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empressplay 11y ago

I guess they decided it didn't get a fair run and removed it from the dupe checker? That happens sometimes...

DanBC 11y ago

(I'm not an admin. You probably want to email HN because they won't see the question otherwise.) In the past HN had a fairly strict dupe-detection filter. That meant that a lot of good stories that didn't get attention on the first posting didn't get reposted. Currently the dupe-detection is much weaker than it used to be. A story that didn't get much attention on the first post can be reposted easily now. HN tried an experiment where they'd email people and ask them to repost submissions, and give those reposts a small bump. That was a lot of work, so they only do that for "Show HNs". Now they do something like an auto-repost which resets the timestamp. This means that sometimes you'll post something, and it won't get much attention, and a few hours later someone else will post the same thing and it'll get upvotes. This isn't going to stay like it is. They're working on a better system. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754760 >> We've recently started doing things to make the original submitter get the front-page slot more often https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753401 >> Invited reposts are mostly deprecated now in favor of re-ups [1], but when it looks like the submitter might also be the author (as e.g. with Show HNs), we still send them. It's nice for an author to know that their post may still get discussed, and it's good for HN when an author jumps into the thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 (A meta post, with links to previous discussion).

jstclair 11y ago
Thanks for that! I knew they'd loosened de-duce up a bit, but this was ~10 hours.
agumonkey 11y ago
Interesting, maybe dupe shouldn't be a hard boolean but something more analogic. A dupe submit could be like a major upvote, weighed by proximity. 0h-24h : +100, 1d-12d : +50, _ : +1
hidroto 11y ago
could they make it so that the discussion in the dupe could be merged with the latest post as it is now people add links to previous posts.