[dang]

We don't count articles as dupes when they haven't had significant attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. If we did, many of the best articles would never get attention.

There's a lot of randomness in which submission of an article happens to get noticed. It sucks if you got there sooner and someone else wins the lottery, but if you repeatedly submit good stories, it evens out in the long run.

When we put stories in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there), we always try to privilege the original submitter.

[emeraldd]

Make sense.