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A similar thing happens here if you post an identical link. Your submission is disallowed and acts as an up-vote for the original. But too many URLs are diffe
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
A similar thing happens here if you post an identical link. Your submission is disallowed and acts as an up-vote for the original.
But too many URLs are different, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so. I've seen submissions with just an extra hash on the end. There are the submissions with all the feedburner crap cluttering it up, and so on. This was an attempt to be more thorough about detecting duplicates, doing "more properly" a job that's already done, and therefore presumably desirable.
- momotomo 16y agoAh! That's good, didn't realise. The upvote is a good idea, but yeah, there's a million different ways to submit the same online content. The function is definitely desirable, but it seems better suited as a browser plugin or such. Although it's not literally, botting it and having it contribute almost makes it mandatory for all users, versus being an optional component. It's the root of the use case here - the functionality is great, but not all users find it desirable.