I made the exact same submission 2 hours ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4800435
I wonder if there's a need for smarter duplicate URL elimination.
I wonder if there's a need for smarter duplicate URL elimination.
The issue isn't duplicate URLs, the issue is that the submission system is broken. This is an example of that. When a story doesn't get a single upvote the first time it is submitted, but gets 50+ upvotes when it is submitted just two hours later, something is wrong with the system.
In good upvoting systems the "winners" should be decided by how interesting they are and not by the hour they was submitted or seemingly totally random factors. Creating a system like that is incredibly hard though.
Maybe. But really, people were just asleep and didn't feel like waking up to give their upvotes out. Most people who read HN were asleep three hours ago. It's Sunday morning, many HN readers are on the west coast of the US. For them, the previous submission was at 4am. Why are you surprised it didn't get many upvotes? Even for US East readers, it was 7am on Sunday.
Timing your submission for when most people are asleep and expecting upvotes is not going to work. If you want people to read it, submit when they're awake.
The poster of this new article added ?fromcat=all to the end of the url to evade the filter.
It's gently infuriating.
I'm not sure what the answer should be. People should submit less? Should only submit great articles form good sources? More people should follow new and flag the dross and upvote the great articles. I dunno.
Perhaps banning any filter evasion that isn't ?repost=1; ?repost=2 etc might help. At least then people could easily see how often this had been reposted.
Please don't accuse me of doing it on purpose, however!
Had the exact same thing happen to me, took the time to clean up the URL, next submission a few minutes later got approved and you could see both links to the article next to each other under new.