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I posted this 2 hours ago [1] and both the posts are in home; the URLs differ just by a trailing question mark. How come the duplicate detector didn't trigger?
by ot 12y ago
I posted this 2 hours ago [1] and both the posts are in home; the URLs differ just by a trailing question mark.
How come the duplicate detector didn't trigger?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515417
- joosters 12y agoI think the duplicate detector looks at exact URL matches. Things like a trailing / or ? will let a new story go through.
- ot 12y agoThe duplicate detector is usually quite more clever than just exact URL match. Why the downvote? EDIT: In fact, I just tried to re-submit an existing link by adding a question mark and it didn't go through.
- peteretep 12y ago> The duplicate detector is usually quite more clever than > just exact URL match This doesn't match my experience, but then I usually editorialize my titles if I'm resubmitting something I know is here already.