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When I post a link to HN that already exists, it auto-votes the prior story for me. There must be some time threshold after which it's allowed to report the sam
by LiveTheDream 16y ago
When I post a link to HN that already exists, it auto-votes the prior story for me. There must be some time threshold after which it's allowed to report the same link.
- blasdel 16y agoIt checks submissions against the links that are cached in memory -- you can resubmit the same URL if a page containing a link to it has not been requested since the server last crashed. You can submit links that nobody's looked at recently (modulo the consistent crashiness of Arc). As a hack I think it's clever and terrible all at once.