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This story is interesting because of the hate generated in a small number of people around the perceived cheating.

Or maybe the stuff around anonymous crowds will always contain destructive assholes.

People might be interested in the previous discussion of this article (only 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8499452

Here's a different post about the 2011 challenge, with some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9021383

And here's another one with 50 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3164466

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Even non anonymous crowds contain destructive assholes - see plenty of anecdotes and write-ups of businesses. Identification however lets traditional social mechanisms handle the issues to the extent they are able to handle them in real life. The other examples in the article mentioned friends recruiting friends based on utility which tends to be a really good way of preventing dodgy behaviour. The same effect has been used in micro financing in South America where social reputation and therefore stigma is used in lieu of traditional loan guarantees.

The previous submission had exactly the same URL and title, so why did the duplicate detection system allow me to submit this? Still, there's some interesting discussion there, thanks for pointing it out.

Just for clarity: I don't care about duplicates. When I post links to past discussion it's only to point people to comments that they may find interesting.

I think the dupe detector is weak to allow interesting articles more chance to get substantial discussion. This is an interesting article, and it would be (in my opinion) a shame if it got caught in the dupe detector. (But obviously I'm not a mod!)

Because it was 584 days ago. HN lets you repost something after a while.

If a link was posted that long ago maybe the original year could be automatically appended.

Usually the year means the year it was posted on the source site. That doesn't necessarily mean it'll be posted here the same year.

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