Tell YC/HN: There is a serious problem in the "Submit" script
Couple days ago, user submitted the "Why TV lost" article by pg, while it was already submitted. The problem is that the submit script does not really treat www.domain.com as domain.com , and treats them as different links.
A user has made a debate with me that mail.google.com is NOT the same as google.com, and it looks like he misunderstands what I mean.
I replied to this user with this: " But google.com is the same as www.google.com? and ycombinator.com is the same as www.ycombinator.com? Got what I mean! I am talking about the "www" which is the acronym of "world wide web", and it's automatically assigned to any domain name, so usually domain.com and www.domain.com points to the same host, unles if the sysadmin changes it which rarely happens.
I am talking about the "www." and NOT any other subdomain that the sysadmin/webmaster can add/change or remove.
I am sorry if you misunderstand what I am talking about."
And you can look at it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508746
So as you see, the problem is about the "www" which usually points to the same website/host, but the submit script treats them as different links.
Am I right or wrong? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Solution? Adjust the submit script to treat www.domain.com/article/ as domain.com/article/
By the way, this problem happened again with the article: How to be a program manager (joelonsoftware.com) which is listed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508918