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I used to flag duplicates from the new page, but realized it goes nowhere. Maybe a different flag to downgrade dupes?

ChrisArchitect 4y ago
Yes please. This is hardly news, even if it prompts discussion, most of it is repeating the same discussion from all the previous discussions
nathanvanfleet 4y ago
I kind of wonder if deduping posts would be good. I find it really annoying to see reposts and if definitely makes it feel like there really isn't all that much content out there, at least much content that has enough viral potential. I suppose it's possible for a company to fingerprint content easily enough to stop dupes. Maybe it would block the post but allow a repost of the original content? But is that really good for the company? Plenty of people haven't seen that content anyway, so maybe it's working for those people, and sometimes you do want to see the repost if it's been long enough. I personally think it might just seize the entire ecosystem if you prevented it because the volume of content would go down, and the vitality of things would go down too. Not to mention the people reposting are kind of keeping the whole thing alive for their virtual points, and if they can't do it at scale by posting the same video in 20 different places anymore things might just stop. I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly. I'm surprised no one has started uploading, upscaling and posting America's Funniest Home Videos clips.
- joezydeco 4y ago
  I don't think people are karma farming here. They're just too new and/or don't recall when certain posts have been on HN before. Dang has a pretty good list of links that keep showing up every 90-180 days on a continual basis (e.g. "The Story of Mel")
- vlunkr 4y ago
  > I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly This is definitely true of mainstream social media, but I don't think it's that bad on HN. Based on the list of duplicates, this has been posted 13 times in 12 years, that's really not that bad. Things don't live on the front-page that long, someone reasonably could have missed it every time. If people are engaging with the post, what's the problem?
dang 4y ago
Flagging from the new page doesn't go nowhere - it's handled the same way as flagging from any other page.
- joezydeco 4y ago
  Of course. But I'm guessing that dupes aren't flagged as heavily as something illegal/inappropriate/ads/etc. So they survive more often, correct?
  - dang 4y ago
    They must, because dupes are less obvious than those other things. You need to either have seen the story on HN before and remember it; or do a search.

Yes please. This is hardly news, even if it prompts discussion, most of it is repeating the same discussion from all the previous discussions

nathanvanfleet 4y ago

I kind of wonder if deduping posts would be good. I find it really annoying to see reposts and if definitely makes it feel like there really isn't all that much content out there, at least much content that has enough viral potential. I suppose it's possible for a company to fingerprint content easily enough to stop dupes. Maybe it would block the post but allow a repost of the original content? But is that really good for the company? Plenty of people haven't seen that content anyway, so maybe it's working for those people, and sometimes you do want to see the repost if it's been long enough. I personally think it might just seize the entire ecosystem if you prevented it because the volume of content would go down, and the vitality of things would go down too. Not to mention the people reposting are kind of keeping the whole thing alive for their virtual points, and if they can't do it at scale by posting the same video in 20 different places anymore things might just stop. I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly. I'm surprised no one has started uploading, upscaling and posting America's Funniest Home Videos clips.

joezydeco 4y ago
I don't think people are karma farming here. They're just too new and/or don't recall when certain posts have been on HN before. Dang has a pretty good list of links that keep showing up every 90-180 days on a continual basis (e.g. "The Story of Mel")
vlunkr 4y ago
> I feel like a lot of social networks are relying on a an orbiting cloud of garbage that just recirculates constantly This is definitely true of mainstream social media, but I don't think it's that bad on HN. Based on the list of duplicates, this has been posted 13 times in 12 years, that's really not that bad. Things don't live on the front-page that long, someone reasonably could have missed it every time. If people are engaging with the post, what's the problem?

dang 4y ago

Flagging from the new page doesn't go nowhere - it's handled the same way as flagging from any other page.

joezydeco 4y ago
Of course. But I'm guessing that dupes aren't flagged as heavily as something illegal/inappropriate/ads/etc. So they survive more often, correct?
- dang 4y ago
  They must, because dupes are less obvious than those other things. You need to either have seen the story on HN before and remember it; or do a search.