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What if the link is to an older story that was submitted a while back? I ask because there's plenty of new readers everyday on HN who most probably have never
by knightinblue 18y ago
What if the link is to an older story that was submitted a while back?
I ask because there's plenty of new readers everyday on HN who most probably have never seen the link the first time it was submitted.
- tokenadult 18y agoThat's why submitting the canonical URL is preferred, because the HN duplicate detector then upvotes the original submission, and takes you (the submitter) to that thread. But The Economist doesn't make this easy by posting stories with so many different URLs. I've gradually figured out which form of the URL is the main form, and try to submit Economist stories that way. Those tend to be the first-submitted URLs here on HN.