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The question rather is, why would the system allow the same URL to be submitted twice. In the past when I tried to submit something already in, I was redirected
by chx 7y ago
The question rather is, why would the system allow the same URL to be submitted twice. In the past when I tried to submit something already in, I was redirected to the existing post and my submissions was converted into an upvote.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoA five-day-old HN submission is effectively dead. Would make sense if the behavior you describe only happens to dupe urls within 24hr of each other if the first one hit a certain threshold of traction. Else makes more sense to allow the dupe submission to give it another shot.
- dang 7y agoYou get redirected to an existing post if it has already had significant attention or is less than 8 hours old. Otherwise reposts go through.
- chx 7y agoWhy don't you just bump the post to newest if someone attempted to resubmit it?
- dang 7y agoI don't understand what you mean exactly.
- chx 7y agoLet's presume http://example.com http://example.com was never submitted. So, when it is submitted, it is on the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest but it doesn't get much attention. Now let's resubmit http://example.com http://example.com a few days later. It should be on top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest again. But not as a new post. No, the first submission should be moved up here. Obviously after some time / amount of comments this makes no sense, people resubmit years old links etc but thresholds can be set.
- dang 7y agoThanks, I see what you mean now. If we did that then /newest would no longer be a simple chronological log of everything posted to HN.