3 ms·
Ask HN: Why didn't this dupe get caught by the HN URL checker upon 'Submit'?
- ColinWright 10y agoThe mods are working hard to make the dupe detector better, for some definition of "better." Many very good submissions fall through the cracks, so re-submissions are tolerated if the previous submission didn't get any attention. Unfortunately, this doesn't take into account that the submission may have got no visible attention because it's really not interesting, or it's of no real value. The net result is that currently there are many, many, many duplicates, sometimes exact, and sometimes just of the same story submitted over and over again. I've stopped marked them, even though I find them more annoying than any well balanced person would, or should. I'm sure the current situation won't continue, and that something will be done. However, you can assume that to some extent there now really is no "dupe detector."
- minimaxir 10y agoThe auto-dupe detector was changed so that it only applies for submissions within the last few hours. The other submissions was 3 days old in your case.