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so out of curiosity I submitted the same story from the same source first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16649362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16

by bruceb 9y ago

so out of curiosity I submitted the same story from the same source first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16649362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16649362 with the url: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/20/walmart-launches-autonomous-scanning-robots/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/20/walmart-launches... then this post is submitted with same url but with /?href= added rel= http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/20/walmart-launches... and it hits the frontpage. Is that all it takes to resubmit the same story?

dspillett 9y ago
> Is that all it takes to resubmitted the same story? They are different URLs, so a simple "same URL is a re-submission" check is going to let them both pass. No automated system is going to be able to reliably tell the difference between two similar URLs that point to different articles on the same source or similar URLs that reference the same content, without pulling the content for both and analysing the differences (and even if they are the same resource, the requests might be slightly different if they include things like timestamps, per-request varying advert include markup, and so on).
mhb 9y ago
It doesn't even take that. It seems that you can resubmit the exact same link after a few hours. Happened to me many times.