Comment by minimaxir
10 years ago
The post with ~110 points was killed in favor of the ~50 point post at the time. In that case using time as the tie breaker might not be the best since people will have to upvote again.
10 years ago
The post with ~110 points was killed in favor of the ~50 point post at the time. In that case using time as the tie breaker might not be the best since people will have to upvote again.
In general you're right, but this story was guaranteed not to lack for upvotes. Indeed it went to #1 as soon as we buried the other one as a dupe.
I realize it's not a big deal, and it's actually a great sign about the HN community that almost no one cares much about karma. But we do want to try harder to give the original submitter credit, because then the incentive is aligned with what's best for the community: finding good stories that haven't been posted yet.