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Thank you, Dan. It's certainly tough to catch differing URLs for the same story, but two of those submissions[1,2] appear to share the exact same link[3], with
by miles 6y ago
Thank you, Dan. It's certainly tough to catch differing URLs for the same story, but two of those submissions[1,2] appear to share the exact same link[3], with the first one flagged. I imagine it must be uncommon for an identical URL of a flagged submission to be accepted again so soon?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23764542
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23757033
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ayn-rand-idUSKBN248026 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-ay...
- dang 6y agoThe dupe detector doesn't consider flags, and it allows reposts if an article hasn't had significant attention yet. It's porous on purpose, to allow good articles multiple chances at attention. Unfortunately, since we have no software to distinguish good articles from bad ones, it also allows bad ones multiple chances at attention. Thems the breaks.