> I don’t wanna be callous but on a scale of 0=I stubbed my toe and 10=children are starving in [insert location] this seems to be a -3.

The scale is a measure of what though?

> My theory is every so often someone stumbles upon it, thinks “oh that’s interesting!” and submits it, not realizing it’s a duplicate? ..and then tons of readers in the same boat upvote it? (Similar to how urban legends about dog-sized rats taken as pets in Mexico keep circulating and will forever)

I'm not sure this is a theory, this is literally how the site works, is it not?

You know what I do when I see an article title that I've seen before and it's something I don't care about? I don't click it. Most times though, I do click into the comments to see what a 'new' audience thinks about it.

> I don’t wanna be callous but on a scale of 0=I stubbed my toe and 10=children are starving in [insert location] this seems to be a -3.

Not sure what we are measuring here but the issue of this particular article annoying you seems like a -25 by comparison, so maybe just ignore it?

> If not… holy crap can we please stop repeating articles like this???

Is there really a world-stopping problem that requires this to be fixed?

> My theory is every so often someone stumbles upon it, thinks “oh that’s interesting!” and submits it, not realizing it’s a duplicate? ..and then tons of readers in the same boat upvote it?

The social bug being that you keep getting older and there is always young newcomers that don't have the knowledge you have already picked up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gWtrnb4KjU