Comment by frizlab
1 year ago
I have a meta question not directly related to the article but more about HN itself. I posted this exact link 9h before this submission was posted[1]. How is it possible that there is a new entry for the submission given the link is the same?
Dupes are allowed after some number of hours.
I think it is time * (votes+comments).
In practice, if it gets any real amount of votes or comments, you have to wait a year to repost. If it doesn't get any attention, it can be reposted quickly (though I think it should be a day later).
It depends. I tried posting a few links I came across over the past few days, and it just showed me dups but they were from days or weeks or sometimes months ago.
Not sure why this comment is downvoted. Yes, I got redirected for a dupe earlier today for something posted 7 months ago. And even though the content substantially changed, it can’t be posted again.
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I thought that number was significantly more than 9.
It seems like, if the link is the same, submitting a dupe should just raise the original.
My guess is that “fastest gun in the west” might be a bit anti-pattern with respect to community.
Because in ye olden times, mild URL shenanigans seemed to have been a common hack to bypass more strict dupe detection.
And the community probably doesn’t really benefit from aggressive karma seeking —back then being first would give you a point for every resubmission. [1]
But that’s all speculation based on a supposition that what is more likely to be submitted by other users is not a better criterion for choosing to submit.
But I could very well be wrong and probably am.
[1] and number of submissions is probably at best a noisy signal for front page placement and might be negatively correlated with curiosity…I mean even here, what Apple is doing doesn’t stray too far from yesterday’s big press release by one of the most valuable corporations in the world.
Might be something weird with this domain. Look at the list of submissions, yours isn't the first dupe that was accepted in a relatively short time window.