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Hi Dan, I often see submissions labeled as "[dupe]" and I've came across some of them myself. In these cases, what's the proper/best way of "marking" them as d

Hi Dan, I often see submissions labeled as "[dupe]" and I've came across some of them myself. In these cases, what's the proper/best way of "marking" them as duplicates? Usually, I just hit "flag" but I feel that might not be the best way. Thanks for all you do to keep HN awesome!

dang 11y ago
Flagging is the way. If the story gets flagkilled and has a single comment pointing to a previous HN submission, the software displays [dupe] instead of [flagged]. [dupe] also shows up if a moderator marks the item as a dupe. We're probably going to extend flagging to ask the user to pick from a list of reasons, one of which will be "duplicate", so this mechanism may change somewhat in the new year.