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I agree with you entirely, which is why I resubmitted it and made the extensive comment[0] about why it is not a duplicate, and deserves to be here in its own r

I agree with you entirely, which is why I resubmitted it and made the extensive comment[0] about why it is not a duplicate, and deserves to be here in its own right. If I could gift you the karma I would, not that it's really worth much, to be honest. The current method of handling duplicates is quite simply not working. Consider the multiple large discussions about Google deleting a blog without warning[1][2][3]. HN needs a way to merge items, not simply mark some as duplicates, which kills the item, and any discussion on it then sinks without trace. There must be a better way. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12105922 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097063 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12099757 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12100843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12100843

lisper 10y ago
Ah, I missed that. Thanks for the shout out! I've given some thought to how a more fair submission system would work, and I came up with the following idea: 1. Dup submissions are treated as upvotes 2. If an article has N upvotes, the original submitter gets N points (as it is now), the second submitter (or upvoter -- same thing) gets N/2 points, the third gets N/3 points, etc. until either the article makes it onto the front page or some arbitrary point threshold (like 10) is reached. 3. Every upvote or submission costs one karma point. So you have to have at least one karma point to submit or upvote. You have to get your bootstrap points by submitting a comment that gets an upvote. This is to prevent spamming.