[samwillis]

It doesn't matter if its a dupe of something everyone missed before and people up vote it this time. So much stuff gets submitted now that links are only on the first page of the new list for a few minutes and can easily be missed. This time its hit at the right time and there could be a good discussion about it.

[user9756]

I agree with your argument,

but why is he being down voted? All he did was to point out that this article has been published before.

Maybe there are some interesting comments in the "dupe" thread? (in this case no, but you get the point)

I'm still new to HN and I find the up/down vote behaviour rather peculiar from time to time. This is such a time.

[nl]

(He's being downvoted because it didn't add anything to this discussion, and it seemed like a case of sour-grapes because he originally submitted the link.

If there was discussion on the original submission it would have been useful)

[eru]

Oh, it's probably best not to value the early voting too much. It usually balances out to something sensible over time.

Providing a bit more context in your post would have probably helped.

[dazbradbury]

My comment was posted when this page had no comments, nor was it on the front page. In fact, I think it had less than 3 or 4 points. I was just informing the original poster, given that I too thought it was an interesting article, that it seems there was little interest here on HN.

Clearly, due to getting enough karma to put it on the front page this time, my comment is indeed now irrelevant. The post was clearly just missed the first time as you say. Whether this is a problem with the karma/new post system or not is a different matter - and probably not one for discussion here.

I didn't think I'd get downvoted though, given when my comment was made, but your points are fair.

[dazbradbury]

Ps. For completeness, here are all the other submissions:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=tit...