Yep, this needs a `dup` mark somewhere.
Edit for down-voters: the typical HN behaviour. Don't be lazy and take a time to explain why you downvote.
Edit for down-voters: the typical HN behaviour. Don't be lazy and take a time to explain why you downvote.
I'll respond to the point about duplicates below.
Maybe by this point this belongs in the document that talks about voting meta, given that it's one of the most persistent and common voting meta comments.
> Are reposts ok?
> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
> Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.
Dupes are not against the rules. You're likely getting downvoted by people aware of that.
Sorry but I'm seeing big contradictions in the so called rules.
Just one example:
> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
> "in the last year or so"
Not in the same month or even after some hours later.
> "a small number of reposts is ok"
Well, HN what to prevent duplications or not ?
> Dupes are not against the rules. You're likely getting downvoted by people aware of that.
With that premise in mind, let's continue making duplicate content. right?
So don't misunderstand me, since my intention here is just to put in evidence the same recurrent problem to improve HN. For instance I have also faced the same problem in the past so there is nothing agains rules or things like that, but instead is more a improvement for HN.
The reason because I'm interested on this is because I feel part of the community and this is a concern for me (I suppose for others too). Otherwise I could take the easy and dirty way to just say nothing and ignore the problem.
In the current case, the previous submission didn't get much attention, so we didn't count this one as a dupe. In the case of your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812145, the previous submission of the story did get a big discussion, so we marked the repost as a dupe. There's no contradiction.
Does that make sense? If not, take a look at some of the previous explanations. If you still have questions after that, let us know.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> > "in the last year or so"
> Not in the same month or even after some hours later.
A year is the expiration date on reposts of items that _have_ had significant discussion. Items which did not have significant discussion, and also did not have a large quantity of reposts already are exempt. In some cases the mods have reached out to submitters and suggested they repost items which the mods felt were interesting but did not catch on.
Essentially I still don't understand why some get label as duplicated and some others not.
Anyway, Unfortunately https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html is not clear at all for me and I think HN needs to make it more obvious to help members to understand without doubts or contradictions, which was the case for me.
So I will contact HN soon in order to request an account deletion.
Thanks for try to explain me about it.
PD. Sorry for the deviation of these comments from the main topic here. But I think my concern is already expressed on previous comments.