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Off-topic: I submitted the exact same article only a few hours before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677703
by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 6y ago
Off-topic: I submitted the exact same article only a few hours before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26777030 ; I thought someone else submitting the same thing would end up being a simple upvote on my submission instead of a separate submission?
I don't care about the points or credit, glad it's on front page. But apparently there's something I don't know about the workings of HN? Thankful for someone clearing that one up and sorry for taking up the space.
- amelius 6y agoPerhaps they submitted it before you and then changed the submission (e.g. title)? Just a guess.
- pseudolus 6y agoI submitted the article in question and didn't make any alterations to either the title or the link. It's possible (just a guess) that the link I submitted was slightly different from the link that the OP submitted as I tend to strip out extraneous parts of the URL. After that the submission was likely then just fortuitously upvoted.
- Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 6y agohad the same idea, but I do so as well and link is exactly the same. edit: it doesn't really matter I guess. HN has some mechanisms which aren't public afaik. How downvoting works exactly, how flagging works, who can, what the algorithms are for sorting. This account I'm using hadn't a successful submission before, but it's not that I spam submissions either. Four submissions in total and the account is 8 months old. But I guess it's just some automatic behavior of the site, well... shrug.
- dang 6y agoThat's true for 8 hours, but this one was submitted 9 hours after yours.
- Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 6y agoThank you for answering ; good to know.