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Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm? Also, there's arguably a market in titles - I know I've missed stories o
by 13ren 18y ago
Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm?
Also, there's arguably a market in titles - I know I've missed stories of interest to me, because I didn't recognize that aspect of them from a specific title.
4) [I believe] the site matches URLs, but doesn't catch non-significant differences, because it's difficult to tell what's significant. e.g. in this case, the previous submission's URL had an appended: ?tid=true
5) [I believe] there is a HN list with a slower decay, so it's averaged over a longer period of time (like Digg's "Top in ..." on the RHS): http://news.ycombinator.com/best http://news.ycombinator.com/best but it's not very newsy, because it's averaged over a longer period of time.
With your friend, isn't the asking price also an input? The experience of getting more sales when you increase prices is not uncommon.
- davi 18y ago5) cool! Didn't know about that. 4) fair enough "Lots of people (51 upvotes) didn't see the first one, so maybe it doesn't do any harm?" - It harms the people who already read the story, and now have decreased signal:noise on their front page. - It helps the people who missed it the first time around who find it interesting. - It helps the people who already read the story, and who were interested in the HN discussion of the story (at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360412 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360412). These people now get an influx of new comments to think about. The last point only works because the user community pointed out the duplicate, and collectively decided that on-topic discussion (as opposed to this meta-ish discussion) best belonged under the original posting. Possible conclusion: dupes are okay (even net good) on a site with a principled user community. Probably net bad on a site with a more chaotic community. Feature idea for social news sites: let (high karma?) users fuse dupes' discussion pages into one.
- alecco 18y agoI beg to differ, we are programmers. If there is a problem with the system we fix it, we don't justify it. If dupes are allowed the karma whores will start reposting top stories all the time and many quality posters will just move on (again.) You have to reward quality and punish sloppiness. That's why I admire this site, flagged dupes or inappropriate submissions get deleted very quickly.