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By manually changing it you've overridden the dupe post check. I posted this Nintendo article 5 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240858 https:

By manually changing it you've overridden the dupe post check. I posted this Nintendo article 5 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240858 https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda--1169414.html https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-be... It can be seen in the search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.co.uk%2FNews%2F2016%2FDecember%2FTake-a-look-behind-the-scenes-with-design-documents-from-The-Legend-of-Zelda--1169414.html&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.co.uk...

dang 10y ago
By HN's standards it doesn't count as a dupe, because the previous submission didn't get attention. See the bit about reposts in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. In other words, even if the nintendo.co.uk URL had been the submitted one, HN's software would have happily let it through. This is by design. It gives good stories multiple cracks at the bat, in the hope of compensating for the randomness of the lottery on /newest. We do have a few tricks to try to reward the original submission of a good story, and eventually we intend to work on more sophisticated dupe detection that will reward the original submitter more. In the meantime, there's still a fair bit of randomness. But if an account submits lots of good stories, it evens out.
- richardboegli 10y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. Previously when I had dupe posted something it seemed to be counted as an up vote for the original post or I got an error that it had already been posted without a redirect. A suggestion: Reposts count as up votes for original submission AND it puts another submission into the newest queue. Maybe with a REPOST tag and a counter for times REPOSTED. Additional visibility could help post get more up votes and make it to front page. Current system doesn't reward poster for being first, as you said, it is up to the lottery of /newest.

dang 10y ago

By HN's standards it doesn't count as a dupe, because the previous submission didn't get attention. See the bit about reposts in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. In other words, even if the nintendo.co.uk URL had been the submitted one, HN's software would have happily let it through. This is by design. It gives good stories multiple cracks at the bat, in the hope of compensating for the randomness of the lottery on /newest. We do have a few tricks to try to reward the original submission of a good story, and eventually we intend to work on more sophisticated dupe detection that will reward the original submitter more. In the meantime, there's still a fair bit of randomness. But if an account submits lots of good stories, it evens out.

richardboegli 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Previously when I had dupe posted something it seemed to be counted as an up vote for the original post or I got an error that it had already been posted without a redirect. A suggestion: Reposts count as up votes for original submission AND it puts another submission into the newest queue. Maybe with a REPOST tag and a counter for times REPOSTED. Additional visibility could help post get more up votes and make it to front page. Current system doesn't reward poster for being first, as you said, it is up to the lottery of /newest.