[IvyMike]

They have explicitly stated that are ok with retrying recent overlooked stories just in case a story got missed or buried for whatever reason.

They are also ok with reposting year+ old stories that did get significant attention at the time, since the new respost may find a new audience.

[zekrioca]

The main point is: Assuming the New section is a queue, and that the very same link is posted twice, should the first link be re-queued in the New section again? It was clearly a duplicate, although it was not flagged as such.