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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

Yes, I did have a justification:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639994

But it now seems clear that this has a personal component:

    I do have a problem with Colin's crusade
    against duplicates.

    -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638986

Should I stop just because you and a few others say so? many others have repeatedly expressed support.

But now that I have a context for your criticisms I know how much weight to give them.

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Your justification was another, when the rules apply to me there is a built in special case exception.

There is nothing personal about it, I have no idea who you are, I am sure that you are a decent human being. I have a problem with hypocrisy. In the case of the duplicates you said "no wonder people think HN is broken" because someone submitted a duplicate story...and you did not mention that the fourth submission was yours. It seemed to me that your behavior was just as worthy of a "no wonder people think HN is broken" as the person who submitted the story for the fifth time.

"I have a problem with hypocrisy."

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one :)

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