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I submitted this exact article from the same source an hour and half before this submission. How does that work?

• ugh 17y ago
  Randomness.
  • RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
    If you reply it helps to give a correct answer and be helpful. EDIT: To clarify in response to ugh's clarification below: It is not randomness that the duplication was permitted. However, yes, it is (partially) apparently randomness that makes one submission appear on the front page and not another. My observation is that one submission may go unnoticed, and a duplicate does get noticed, up-mud once, and away it goes being noticed. If the first submission gets noticed, the second never happens. The dynamics aren't difficult, really, although they are prey to the random timing of people looking and liking (or not).
    • jrockway 17y ago
      From the Slashdot FAQ: "If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny: If you don't have something truly developing to the topic, some humor is welcome. Humor is lacking in our lives and will continue to be promoted. Remember though, what rips your sides out may be completely inane to somebody else."
    • ugh 17y ago
      Just to clarify: I (presumably, still not sure) misunderstood the parent. I read his comment as “I posted this also, why does this submission appear on the front page, not mine?”, to which the correct answer is “Randomness.” (I think).
• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  Yours is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943346 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943346 Have a look at the actual URL. Yours has this on the end of the URL: ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&\ utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+\ %28Engadget%29&utm_content=Google+Reader (I've deliberately split the line) and hence it didn't match this one, which is clean.