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I’m sorry, am I on Stack Exchange?

• dang 7y ago
  On Hacker News, we're pretty careful about dupes, but for different reasons and in a different way than on SE. Here the issue is that frontpage space is the scarcest resource that HN has (only 30 slots at a time). Since the site exists for intellectual curiosity, and curiosity withers under repetition, it's important not to have those slots taken up by stories that have had a significant recent discussion. (For example, the OP had a major thread yesterday.) Reposts are allowed in the other cases. That is, if a story hasn't had significant attention yet, we don't treat a repost as a dupe. Similarly, if it has had a significant discussion but not recently, it's ok to resubmit it. That's because once enough time has gone by, the topic can gratify curiosity again. The cutoff is a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
  • bananamerica 7y ago
    It's okay to point out duplicates, it's just odd to see it done in such a spartan manner over here.