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I'm curios why the post about Gitlab [1] was marked as a duplicate and thereby banished from the front page, without any other post in sight. YCombinator favor

I'm curios why the post about Gitlab [1] was marked as a duplicate and thereby banished from the front page, without any other post in sight. YCombinator favoritism? ( Gitlab was part of YCombinator 2015 ) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 Edit: Number 22 yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23 Must have missed it. Seems fine to me.

CaliforniaKarl 7y ago
I don't think so. Personally, I did flag the post you mentioned, because that same thing (discussing introducing telemetry) was on the front page yesterday (Yesterday), for most of the day (or, at least, for most of the US/Pacific day). I wouldn't be surprised if there is a policy where if an "item" (a topic, a post, whatever) hits the front page, then it should not appear again immediately after (unless there's some new development).
- deleted 7y ago
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- the_duke 7y ago
  Ah, I missed it yesterday. Number 22. (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23)
dang 7y ago
It was marked as a duplicate because it was a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344575, which spent over 14 hours on HN's front page and got over 200 upvotes. Now there are three threads; those two and this one, which is currently on the front page. I'm happy to merge them, but am not sure which submission should win. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 has the most substantive discussion of the fresh threads, so I guess we'll undupe that one and merge. Give me a few minutes because it's a bit tricky when there are more than two. Edit 2: Ok, I've merged all the comments into the thread except for the ones which were explicitly about this post in a way that wouldn't make sense over there.
- windsurfer 7y ago
  I ignored the original post due to the boring title, and only read the second post due to the more interesting title. I don't really have a point other than the duplicate was what I was following, while the original was not.
  - thsowers 7y ago
    +1 Same here. There were also some interesting comments and discussion going on in that thread. Understand why it was marked as a duplicate, don't understand why the threads weren't combined edit: Thank you @dang!
- the_duke 7y ago
  Knowing that it was on the front page yesterday makes the duping justifiable to me. But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion. Moderation is hard.
  - dang 7y ago
    > But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion That's exactly right! A subtle observation. We tend to demote follow-up or copycat posts for that very reason. Not as much in a case like this, though, because of the rule that we moderate less, not more, when a YC startup is involved. I just posted about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983.

CaliforniaKarl 7y ago

I don't think so. Personally, I did flag the post you mentioned, because that same thing (discussing introducing telemetry) was on the front page yesterday (Yesterday), for most of the day (or, at least, for most of the US/Pacific day). I wouldn't be surprised if there is a policy where if an "item" (a topic, a post, whatever) hits the front page, then it should not appear again immediately after (unless there's some new development).

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the_duke 7y ago
Ah, I missed it yesterday. Number 22. (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-23)

dang 7y ago

It was marked as a duplicate because it was a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344575, which spent over 14 hours on HN's front page and got over 200 upvotes. Now there are three threads; those two and this one, which is currently on the front page. I'm happy to merge them, but am not sure which submission should win. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21343761 has the most substantive discussion of the fresh threads, so I guess we'll undupe that one and merge. Give me a few minutes because it's a bit tricky when there are more than two. Edit 2: Ok, I've merged all the comments into the thread except for the ones which were explicitly about this post in a way that wouldn't make sense over there.

windsurfer 7y ago
I ignored the original post due to the boring title, and only read the second post due to the more interesting title. I don't really have a point other than the duplicate was what I was following, while the original was not.
- thsowers 7y ago
  +1 Same here. There were also some interesting comments and discussion going on in that thread. Understand why it was marked as a duplicate, don't understand why the threads weren't combined edit: Thank you @dang!
the_duke 7y ago
Knowing that it was on the front page yesterday makes the duping justifiable to me. But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion. Moderation is hard.
- dang 7y ago
  > But that probably contributed a lot to pushing up this post, which will produce much worse discussion That's exactly right! A subtle observation. We tend to demote follow-up or copycat posts for that very reason. Not as much in a case like this, though, because of the rule that we moderate less, not more, when a YC startup is involved. I just posted about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346983.