[waterlesscloud]

One of the more frustrating aspects of submitting stories is finding out someone submitted the same story hours (or days) ago and it only garnered a few karma. In that situation, there's no hope of the story getting much attention even though multiple people found it interesting enough to submit. The karma is just spread out over too long a time for the algorithm to raise up the story.

I can imagine you need to defend against rings of people submitting the same spam story over time, but maybe if a few established users are submitting a story, its rank could be raised more than the karma/time ratio alone would indicate.

[dang]

I agree, and it's one reason why we want to make a better dupe detection system. We did look at changing that particular behavior but it turned out to be hard to do in isolation.