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Because the US programmers were going to bed?
by ghoward 5y ago
Because the US programmers were going to bed?
- zekrioca 5y agoI'd expect HN to not let duplicates to be submitted.
- ghoward 5y agoI see. Well, it actually happens all the time.
- IvyMike 5y agoFrom the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are reposts ok? > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. > Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
- zekrioca 5y agoAttention to "in the last year or so". The same link was posted 13-14h ago, not "1 year or so ago".
- IvyMike 5y agoThey have explicitly stated that are ok with retrying recent overlooked stories just in case a story got missed or buried for whatever reason. They are also ok with reposting year+ old stories that did get significant attention at the time, since the new respost may find a new audience.
- zekrioca 5y agoThe main point is: Assuming the New section is a queue, and that the very same link is posted twice, should the first link be re-queued in the New section again? It was clearly a duplicate, although it was not flagged as such.