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Are you saying this is a bad thing? Personally I think it's a good thing that the duplicate detector is easy to get around. Allows for submissions to get multip
by md224 12y ago
Are you saying this is a bad thing? Personally I think it's a good thing that the duplicate detector is easy to get around. Allows for submissions to get multiple chances.
- georgemcbay 12y agoYeah, the HN admins (including dang, very recently) have said that the detector is meant to be porous. It isn't meant to stop you if you are intent on reposting a dup, it is just there for informational purposes and to make you stop and think about it before you really do it.
- baddox 12y agoI don't get it. Why not just allow duplicate submissions, but show a warning and link to the previous submissions before confirming the submission? Or if you intend the URL trick to be semi-secret and thus limited to "power users," then just allow duplicate submissions for users meeting some criterion, like account age or a karma threshold.