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Hi detaro. I'm sorry if it frustrates you, but I've been asked to mark dupes by the HN site admins. If there is already an up-voted story, particularly if the p

by jcr 11y ago

Hi detaro. I'm sorry if it frustrates you, but I've been asked to mark dupes by the HN site admins. If there is already an up-voted story, particularly if the previous story is sitting on the front page of HN (i.e. /news), then additional submissions of the same story are dupes, even if it's the same story from a different source or via a slightly different url. If you could please 'unvouch' the two dupes, it would be appreciated. It will save others the unnecessary work of re-hiding them. thanks.

detaro 11y ago
> If there is already an up-voted story, This seems to be a different interpretation of the rules than is practiced otherwise, which interprets attention as "has been discussed". If there is a new official interpretation IÄd appreciate a link to it. In this case, the timestamps confused me: I saw the submission yesterday night (17 hours ago), clicked here on "past", only saw this old submission, but didn't see that it was apparently bumped by HN, because if I click on the link it shows "4 hours ago". Given that it is very close I will unvouch these two submissions, but I won't flag potential further submissions of the link (and maybe even resubmit it myself, with enough distance)
- dang 11y ago
  This was confusing because it's a borderline case, so you were both right. 28 points is significant attention, but 0 comments is no discussion. That's unusual, and right on the boundary. A case like that probably needs to be called by the ref. In this case, it's probably a good article because the site is known to be excellent, so we could probably have let it go through.