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I thought the reason for submitting was sharing something worthwhile with other HN'ers. The dupe only increases that sharing. That you're making this a personal

• alecco 18y ago
  As explicitly in my other post IMHO encouraging dupes is the problem, what the top voted comment here said. I find it appalling most people here don't seem to see it, as it happens in most other user submitted link sites. Even Digg, usually mocked here, has quite strong software to mitigate this issue, and very often the comment discussions go quite hard on obvious dupes. If you prefer instead to second guess me, like I care about points or something along the lines, fine.