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you wont be - hn is smart enough to consider your resubmission equivalent to an upvote. Dont waste those valuable seconds ;)
by kamakazizuru 13y ago
you wont be - hn is smart enough to consider your resubmission equivalent to an upvote. Dont waste those valuable seconds ;)
- greenyoda 13y agoJudging by the number of duplicate submissions that I flag on a daily basis, the duplicate-finding algorithm doesn't work very well, even on variants of the same URL (e.g., parameters after the "?", like "print=yes" aren't always ignored). And there are lots of things the algorithm won't find at all but are obvious to a person: - Frequently, the identical story is cross-posted to multiple sites. - Someone posts the mobile version of an article (m.foo.com) in addition to the canonical URL (www.foo.com). - Several very similar articles on the same topic: every breaking news story on the Zimmerman verdict or the Bolivian president's plane had pretty much the same facts in it, so if you've seen one, you've seen them all. So I'll just keep on spending those valuable seconds for the good of the HN community.
- kamakazizuru 13y agotrue - ive seen the same story with almost no different facts but from different news sources on the home page multiple times - e.g. when steve jobs passed etc - my point was just about posting a single url - the hn algorithm is typically decent enough. AT the end of the day - if its already been posted - it shouldnt end up getting upvoted much anyways - but in any case - if it makes you feel good - you should keep doing that :)
- lucb1e 13y agoObligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1205/ http://xkcd.com/1205/