Comment by dang

You're talking about this submission:

NASA System Predicts Impact of a Small Asteroid over Germany - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

One thing I've learned today, after 11 hours of posting in this thread, is that it's easy to look at an article in isolation and say "Really? That got moderated?" - when in fact if you know the larger context there's nearly always a straightforward explanation.

One can certainly argue that 86 points and 46 comments is too low a threshold to treat the repost as a dupe, but that's a different question, no?