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Ask HN: Duplicate post gets higher upvotes
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This article had been posted 8 hrs back by two members within 1 hr of each other. The first post is by a member having 200+ points and the second duplicate post by a member having 5000+ points.
The second post is now at the top of the page with more than 745+ upvotes, while the original post has quietly died to page 3 of HN.
Is this just how things are or does higher karma have advantages in posting?
- detaro 8y agoit happens all the time that duplicates are necessary for a story to get attention (and probably the reason why duplicates are allowed at all), and often the early submissions are by high-karma posters, so I don't think it plays a role.
- f311a 8y agoOriginal formula didn't count karma as a ranking factor. But who knows how it works today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417