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Even Reddit tolerates dupes, for the most part, when separated by some time. If it's old to you, don't vote it up. If it's new to you, great.
by sc 18y ago
Even Reddit tolerates dupes, for the most part, when separated by some time.
If it's old to you, don't vote it up. If it's new to you, great.
- SwellJoe 18y agoWhether they are tolerated or not, encouraging them lowers the signal to noise. I come to HN for tightly focused stuff--and I come here often, so repeated old stories are just noise. Purely selfish, but I'd rather folks do a quick search to be sure older stories haven't already been submitted. This one was on the front page here and at Reddit. It's a good story, but it's been covered.
- timr 18y agoEven if you're not willing to do a search, it's a pretty safe assumption that a month-old New York Times article on XKCD will have been well-covered on a hacker news site.
- sc 18y agoAnd yet, a good 20 voters thought otherwise. Bottom line is: voting me into oblivion isn't going to make searching this site any easier, or change the way HN deals with dupes.
- SwellJoe 18y agovoting me into oblivion isn't going to make searching this site any easier I didn't vote you down. Things that are worth commenting on (whether to agree or disagree) are not eligible for downvotes, as far as I'm concerned.
- BrandonM 18y ago"Even Reddit tolerates..."? You do realize that Hacker News is aiming to be better than Reddit, at least in terms of topics this audience is interested in?