3 ms·
When can I post a duplicate?
I just made my first submission thinking HN would let me know if it was a dupe.
Sadly, I checked after and found one with the same title to the same story.
Of course I deleted it and up voted the original but, my checks show HN allows this explicitly.
So when is it acceptable to do so? After a long period since one post suggested that for resurfacing or never at all?
- dang 10y agoHN's rule on this is described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. You can trace the rationale for it by skimming back through https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment&query=by:dang%20repost https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
- frostymarvelous 10y agoJudging from the thread list, this is a problem.