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by dang
1878 days ago
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The issue with duplicates isn't reposts of articles as such, it's not wanting significant duplicate discussions. We allow reposts as a way of mitigating the randomness of /newest. But once a story has gotten significant attention, we bury reposts as duplicates. (But after a year or so, enough time has gone by that a repost is ok again.) In the current case, the previous submission didn't get much attention, so we didn't count this one as a dupe. In the case of your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812145, the previous submission of the story did get a big discussion, so we marked the repost as a dupe. There's no contradiction. Does that make sense? If not, take a look at some of the previous explanations. If you still have questions after that, let us know. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... |
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