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Dupe (I posted this one actually): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23527732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23527732

Tomte 6y ago
What for? Your submission has two points and zero comments. There is nothing to merge. [parent comment asked for a merge, now edited] Also, it's not a dupe. You submitted a different article.
- mehrdadn 6y ago
  Wondering how to avoid bifurcation of the discussion. If we can close/delete/merge one of these somehow that'd be nice (feel free to get rid of the one I posted, I don't care), but maybe it won't be necessary? I have no idea.
  - Tomte 6y ago
    There is no bifurcation. Your submission did not gain any traction, nobody is commenting there. It's long gone. The oldest entry in /newest is now at 19 minutes ago, your submission was two hours ago. Nobody is going to stumble upon it anymore. I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision. But that's not how it works here. Sometimes you're lucky, but very often you're not.
    - Kednicma 6y ago
      Maybe we shouldn't award karma for submissions, if it leads to the problem of multiple people vying to submit something first and leading to duplicate submissions?
      - Tomte 6y ago
        dang reported years ago that he's thinking about some karma-sharing mechanism, where multiple submitters get a piece of the pie. I don't know if he abandoned the idea, didn't find a good way to do it, or maybe rolls it out tomorrow.
        aspenmayer 6y ago
        He's said as much about 15 days ago, but it's also been years in discussion. Not exactly anything to hold your breath waiting for. HN is fine as it is, but karma sharing wouldn't hurt. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346089 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22karma%20sharing%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    - mehrdadn 6y ago
      > I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision. You definitely don't? I literally even said feel free to get rid of the one I posted somehow. My thinking was some people might repost the same link I posted and it might surface later when it gets more votes, or they might do that and leave comments when they land on that one, but I have no idea, I can't predict the future. If it's not an issue then it's not an issue. Why are you making such a big deal out of this and making it a personal issue about me? I don't know why you seem to be trying to start a fight about this here.

Tomte 6y ago

What for? Your submission has two points and zero comments. There is nothing to merge. [parent comment asked for a merge, now edited] Also, it's not a dupe. You submitted a different article.

mehrdadn 6y ago
Wondering how to avoid bifurcation of the discussion. If we can close/delete/merge one of these somehow that'd be nice (feel free to get rid of the one I posted, I don't care), but maybe it won't be necessary? I have no idea.
- Tomte 6y ago
  There is no bifurcation. Your submission did not gain any traction, nobody is commenting there. It's long gone. The oldest entry in /newest is now at 19 minutes ago, your submission was two hours ago. Nobody is going to stumble upon it anymore. I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision. But that's not how it works here. Sometimes you're lucky, but very often you're not.
  - Kednicma 6y ago
    Maybe we shouldn't award karma for submissions, if it leads to the problem of multiple people vying to submit something first and leading to duplicate submissions?
    - Tomte 6y ago
      dang reported years ago that he's thinking about some karma-sharing mechanism, where multiple submitters get a piece of the pie. I don't know if he abandoned the idea, didn't find a good way to do it, or maybe rolls it out tomorrow.
      - aspenmayer 6y ago
        He's said as much about 15 days ago, but it's also been years in discussion. Not exactly anything to hold your breath waiting for. HN is fine as it is, but karma sharing wouldn't hurt. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346089 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23346089 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22karma%20sharing%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - mehrdadn 6y ago
    > I get it. You feel the karma "belongs" to you, because you were faster to find out about that decision. You definitely don't? I literally even said feel free to get rid of the one I posted somehow. My thinking was some people might repost the same link I posted and it might surface later when it gets more votes, or they might do that and leave comments when they land on that one, but I have no idea, I can't predict the future. If it's not an issue then it's not an issue. Why are you making such a big deal out of this and making it a personal issue about me? I don't know why you seem to be trying to start a fight about this here.