I think you're fighting a losing battle there. I always browse HN by the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest link, so I ge

I think you're fighting a losing battle there. I always browse HN by the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest link, so I get the latest articles at the top. Every time there's a story of note afoot, it shows up numerous times in the submissions. I've seen the same news story submitted up to a dozen times in the space of a few hours. If the HN site isn't capable of flagging up the fact that an article someone is about to submit has already been submitted by several other people; and if people are too lazy [or too desperate to earn upvotes] to bother to check whether a story has already been submitted, before submitting it themselves; then I think expecting them to hold back on commenting til they've read an article is extremely optimistic. PS: Hope this reply is relevant. I couldn't be bothered reading what you wrote, before responding. :-)