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I think it depends. I submitted a link last night and it pulled up a 9 day old Share.
by philliphaydon 4y ago
I think it depends. I submitted a link last night and it pulled up a 9 day old Share.
- akolbe 4y agoJust saw another duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793755 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32800972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32800972 (the latter one got flagged and yanked)
- dang 4y agoI'm not sure I understand that but if an article has already had significant attention on HN, the dupe detector will redirect to it. After a year or so this behavior goes away, so the system is open to a repost.
- philliphaydon 4y agoIt was a post about a database, I can't remember what the URL was, but it wasn't 'significant' but enough that it got it to the front page I believe.