I found your bot really annoying. I don't need someone telling me there is another submission with no points and no comments. It almost felt petty, that you we

I found your bot really annoying. I don't need someone telling me there is another submission with no points and no comments. It almost felt petty, that you were scolding the submitter for submitting content that had already been submitted. The comments section of Hacker News is one of the last places on the web that has not been hammered with noise. I would be somewhat interested in how you solved this problem automatically though.