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Duplicate of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401486

• dang 4y ago
  On HN we don't count a post as a dupe if it didn't get significant attention. (This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.) The dupe detector is left porous to allow good submissions to have multiple chances. It's one way to mitigate the randomness of /newest. Of course this also allows bad submissions to have multiple chances, but it's more important to facilitate the good than punish the bad.
  • 10241024 4y ago
    Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know that (I'm new here).