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Does anyone else think submitting the same topic a day late should result in a suspension? I think submission quality would improve if people were forced to lo
by sieabahlpark 3y ago
Does anyone else think submitting the same topic a day late should result in a suspension?
I think submission quality would improve if people were forced to lookup if the topic has already been discussed.
- yunohn 3y agoHN already prevent submitting the same link in a short time frame. Quite often, submissions can end up without activity and resubmitting helps more people contribute to the discussion. Topics aren’t “finished” just because /some/ HNers discussed it one day.
- dang 3y agoYou can't force people to do stuff like that.
- sieabahlpark 3y agoRight but couldn't that type of system be roughly accomplished by looking up the canonical URL and/or title from the meta tag (from a scrape) and search against the last posts? Having a stronger policy on repeated duplicate offenders should be a thing. It just farms points that can be later used in a bot farm.
- dang 3y agoIt's much harder than it looks and almost impossible to get consistently correct.