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Dupes are submissions of the same article. I thought this one was better than the others I had seen on this topic.
by anigbrowl 2y ago
Dupes are submissions of the same article. I thought this one was better than the others I had seen on this topic.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoYou can't submit the same article twice for the most part. Dupes are duplicate discussions. There's an earlier article with some discussion and eventually maybe mods will merge them. No need to split up the discussion. Share your thoughts over there! You could even suggest this link in that thread as a better article option.
- anigbrowl 2y agoYou totally can, the HN dupe detector is less than reliable. Submit something interesting at night and you'll often see it submitted the following day by someone else. As a more general point, the fact is that if a discussion doesn't take off while an item is on the front page shortly after submission, it probably never will. The page sorting algorithm ends up prioritizing recency and traction. I agree this isn't ideal.