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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402775
by jamesbritt 13y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6402775
- tokenadult 13y agoI remember the first submission of this interesting article. Often on HN, I wonder, "Who really submitted that?" I'm still not sure why the duplicate submission detector is as buggy as it is.
- gruseom 13y agoI've always assumed it was deliberately left porous to compensate for the luck of the draw. There's a lot of randomness in which articles get an initial boost on /newest. If the duplicate detector were airtight, a lot of good stories would die unseen. This way, they can have another shot at a discussion. Obviously one should not abuse this to post things that have already had a good discussion or (worse) to promote uninteresting content. I saw jamesbritt's submission a few days ago—it may even have been how I learned about the article. I thought it was a shame that it fell through the cracks, hence the repost.