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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995934, not sure how it got through the filters.

• grzm 8y ago
  AIUI, the dupe detector takes into account whether or not the submission has gained traction. If a submission only has a few comments, a subsequent re-submission may not be considered a dupe.
  • piotrkaminski 8y ago
    Interesting, I didn't know that -- thanks for clarifying.
  • sytelus 8y ago
    This is one giant bandaid on ranking algorithm. I post several stories and depending on day/time/other events either it would get 0 votes or 1000. Same story, same content. This should make people who are in charge of this website do a lot of thinking... I think the issue is that every new story is randomly shown N times at the end of normal results and without initial votes story quickly gets ranked down. When N is too small, you might see random behavior. However they are probably not able to keep N too high because of limited slice of impressions it can be granted.