Comment by brudgers

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.