The rules around what constitutes a duplicate and what doesn't have been unchanged since long before COVID. If people complained, you probably pointed them to p

The rules around what constitutes a duplicate and what doesn't have been unchanged since long before COVID. If people complained, you probably pointed them to previous submissions that didn't have discussions or substantial upvotes - then some amount of repeated submissions is fine. If there has been, please try to avoid posting duplicates. (cf https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)