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This is a problem with Hacker News. Maybe because most people can't downvote (or I dunno some other reason), it has a big big problem with duplicate stories. When Steve Jobs died for example, 30/30 stories were "Steve Jobs has died" for quite some time.

It is irritating, that's for sure.

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People can flag submissions. I don't know if there's a karma threshold for flagging.

People should be visiting new and flagging articles that don't belong here, and upvoting good articles.

It's a bit worrying that "over flagging" could cause someone to lose their ability to flag articles - some users have reported that.

Still, most of the Snowden articles are garbage and should be flagged.

Flagging != downvoting. We should upvote things we find interesting, and flag things that isn't appropriate at all.

No you can't flag stories. Theoretically you can, but if you try to actually flag 25 Snowden stories today, since all of them are off-topic according to HN guidelines, your flag ability will be removed in a matter of minutes.

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