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This post has been submitted 7 times (but not by the same users) in the last 5 months https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=julian.digital

I don't know what to think of that. In one way the articles of Julian are always interesting articles, but in another way it just shows that even on HN bruteforce-posting works

Obviously (2020)

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And I've seen it for the first time. I think it's beneficial if it gets reposted (as long as there is sufficient time in between) as it will reach more readers.

Through the short lifetime of entries on the first page, only a small part of HN readers will likely see it.

I don't think that's the goal of HN to let anyone know about all interesting stuff that exists. Newsletters are better for that I think.

This one may interest you https://hnblogs.substack.com/ daily blog posts of HN (disclaimer I'm the owner) and this specific article was included in the 6 august 2020 post

OP here. This was my second time submitting this article but only because the mods emailed me inviting me to do it. I got this link for context on the resubmitting feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

Question:

Is there any mechanism in place (aside from upvotes ranking, and astute HN commenters) to prevent endless duplicate submissions?

What safety guardrail would prevent a malicious/selfish/merely annoying self-promoter from flooding HN with submissions?

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