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Here is your answer. Multiple people post, and eventually the upvote lottery puts one of them on the front page and a discussion ensues. https://news.ycombinat
by sjcsjc 6y ago
Here is your answer. Multiple people post, and eventually the upvote lottery puts one of them on the front page and a discussion ensues.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24837458
- Normille 6y agoI don't browse the site by the front page, but by '/newest' and regularly see the same story reposted within minutes of being posted by someone else. And, while the 'up vote lottery' may explain why one particular posting of a story gains most popularity, it doesn't address the question of why no-one bothers to check before posting. Take the Nokia/Moon story I specifically referenced. Multiple people were still submitting that one the day after it first broke. Did none of those people have the gumption to consider that, on a site, like HN, obsessed with all things technological, such a technology fan's wet dream of a story might just conceivably have already been submitted by someone else, during the preceding 24 hours?