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You must be new here! If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time... I don't know what's to be d

You must be new here! If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time... I don't know what's to be done about it. HN don't seem to care and it seems like a huge number of visitors to the site just can't be bothered spending a few seconds to check whether or not a story has already been submitted, before adding their own noise to the signal. From the website management point of view one difficulty is that; on the intarwebs in general, the vast majority of these stories originate from a single news agency or press release and are then mirrored across countless other 'news' sites. So, in effect the problem increases exponentially: one story source is republished across 20 different websites and then each of those 20 website articles is submitted to HN by 20 different people.

ColinWright 9y ago
> You must be new here! I'm trying to work out if you're being serious. user: ColinWright created: 2676 days ago karma: 83694 From https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders we have: 1. tptacek 2. jacquesm 3. patio11 4. ColinWright 5. danso So no, I'm not new here. And yes, I'm aware of the problems you cite, and I'm explicitly suggesting a measure that could be taken to help fix what I see, and you acknowledge, is an irritation.
- LordWinstanley 9y ago
  >I'm trying to work out if you're being serious. > user: ColinWright. > created: 2676 days ago > karma: 83694 Wow! --the autism is strong in this one.