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How come this story could be reposted so quickly when it has been submitted already 11 hours ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12747592 https://news.yco

• Tomte 10y ago
  HN software auto-resubmits some stories. Additionally, HN mods manually resubmit stories they feel have potential for a fruitful discussion.
  • dustinmoris 10y ago
    Ok thank you, but that doesn't seem to be the case here, because this doesn't appear to be auto-posted by some HN bot? Normally when I try to post an article that has already been posted in the last 24hours then Hacker News redirects me to the original post, so I was surprised how this could be duplicated so quickly after the original post. Also why does my question get down voted? Was I wrong to ask that question or do people feel offended by my question?
    • Tomte 10y ago
      Those auto-reposted submissions look like the original submitter resubmitted them. You can usually see that their are conflicting time-stamps, some pages show the original time, some the resubmission time. I don't know if it was the case here. It may simply be that it was a normal submission and the URL duplicate detection didn't work. It's hard to do that, if you're too strict you probably get a lot of false positives. Questioning downvotes never leads to any real answer, so it's useless at best. And it invites further downvotes, because it's unproductive (and can seem whiny – not in your case, though). I am regularly astounded which of my comments get many downvotes, and also which of them get many upvotes. Also sometimes comments start with -4 and get to +8 or vice versa. It's best to shrug it off entirely.
• sctb 10y ago
  The duplicate detection software allows reposts when the original story didn't get much attention, which is the case here.