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[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323900

This question was surely asked before - is there any reason why the platform cannot prevent dupes when submitted? There seems to be a lot of effort to type in dupe and at times (like todays Amazon AI story) multiple posts will generate hundred(s) or comments separately

HN does detect direct duplicates upon submission (ie same url).

But in instances like this one where it's different articles about the same topic, there's presently no real detection. I'm not sure there should be either, with them being different articles and all.

"Different article", yes. But that's not what it's a dupe of. It's a duplicate discussion. No need to split it up across threads.

Duplicate articles within a short timeframe, sure. But this is more down to users submitting and/or commenting/upvoting on threads when stories are already submitted earlier. Not reading the site, thinking they're somehow ahead of things. Stuff moves pretty fast. Missed the discussion? Well, there's the link.

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