Tell HN: The submission dupe detector apparently has been disabled

11 pointsminimaxir3 comments

The good news is no more "?hn=1" workaround necessary.

The bad news is the 4x Facebook react links on the front page. :p

We've been experimenting with adjusting it, but that was a bug. No one wants identical links on the front page.

Why not both? Have the normal dupe behavior for the first 24 hours a link is present, then have resubmissions beyond that.

Yes, something like that should work. The intention is to have the software work similarly to the actual policy, which is that reposts are ok if (but only if) a story hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so.

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