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Why is this marked as a dupe now? It doesn't appear to have made the front page since December 2018.
by Reelin 7y ago
Why is this marked as a dupe now? It doesn't appear to have made the front page since December 2018.
- dang 7y agoThe rule is "the last year or so": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. The "or so" is there to stretch the dupe window for fluffier, more predictable articles, particularly anything memey. Conversely, we shrink it for particularly substantive and unpredictable submissions, especially if they didn't get huge attention in the past, which is partly what keeps them unpredictable. Edit: here's a great example of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22785015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788542