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No, HN detects duplicates automatically. And if that mechanism fails, either the article just won't get upvoted, or it's an evergreen that is OK to repeat now a
by Tichy 13y ago
No, HN detects duplicates automatically. And if that mechanism fails, either the article just won't get upvoted, or it's an evergreen that is OK to repeat now and then.
- stephengillie 13y agoI've seen multiple threads where the original submission received 100+ upvotes and 100+ comments, and the repost also received 100+ upvotes and 100+ comments. Sometimes the repost comments went in an entirely different direction from the original post comments.
- Tichy 13y agoI suppose if the repost gets a lot of upvotes, it was a good thing that it was reposted?
- dfc 13y agohttp://example.com/story/ http://example.com/story/ http://example.com/story/?s=hn HN will identify the second URL as a duplicate of the first URL. However it will allow the third URL through. In a perfect world HN would check if the submissions provided a canonical url and use the canonical url for deduplication. I have seen an increasing number of people using the $x=yz trick to get past the duplicate detector lately. For instance: http://www.restorethefourth.net/?s=hn thepumpkin1979 15 days ago 350+ points http://www.restorethefourth.net/ 15 days ago iProject 2 points NB: This is merely an example. I do not mean to single thepumpkin1979 out. That is just the first username that I could recall that has multiple ?s=hn in their 30 most recent submissions.