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This is nuts. I can understand the appeal of “legacy” articles (ones that spring up from time to time across months/years) being valuable as individual records. But there should be a way for articles/threads like this one that cover current events and are reposted from multiple sources multiple times throughout the initial news cycle to be consolidated; sources, comments, etc somehow rolled onto a single page. Or something.

Cc: dan(g)

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Just gotta mention they're a dupe earlier and maybe link to where the discussion is happening. The problem is people upvoting this like crazy when it's already been big and lots of comments elsewhere ....stop upvoting this!

They’re all different URLs and all have different titles. Looks like most of those didn’t make it to the front page, so it hasn’t been that “big”. I didn’t see any of those articles. Why do you think upvoting is the problem? How are people supposed to know? The mods here do often merge submissions when necessary (when dupes make it to the front page within a short enough time frame). I don’t see much of a problem in this case, and I disagree strongly with the command to stop upvoting. It’s fine when people notice, but it’s not our responsibility as readers to spend time searching for dupes and filter them out. Dupes in the “new” page are to be expected at all times, because HN is a user-submit system, so different people are always going to be racing to submit the same news. It’s not a problem until dupes hit the front page and comment sections get large.

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