Hacker News has built in re-submission detection. Put in a link that's been posted before and it gets caught.
The headline on this thread is based on a Straw-Man fallacy, and in my opinion has a nasty 'tone' to boot.
How can one assume omnipotence on the part of the submitter? They're somehow supposed to be aware of everything that has been submitted to HN? If the news engine doesn't detect it it's new - if the news engine does detect it, it's caught. So how can someone re-submit and article?
Not sure why OP is getting downvoted like it's Reddit but whatever...
I just wanted to point that this isn't a perfect world where every copy of every article share the (exact) same title which means a lot of times the same article isn't found by that search. Removing the quotes often time don't help either because you're them swamped irrelevant results.
It's pretty close; few people even bother to change the title. If you follow up by searching for anything about the article's content, you can do a pretty good job of determining with 95% certainty whether or not it's a duplicate.
I personally don't think it's too much to expect someone to spend five minutes of time before publishing a post to tens of thousands of people, but I may be in a minority.
Also not quite sure why I've been downvoted - but - as I said above, in my opinion, the whole thread has a nasty tone to it. So I probably shouldn't be shocked. (Was it in retaliation for something? Honestly, I don't get it)
If I were more concerned about Karma than discussion I'd have just kept my head down and STFU (or is that meant to be "TITS or GTFO"?).
The cost of an article submission is LOW, there are thousands of visitors to HN per day who can choose to vote things up or not as appropriate. An volunteer "mechanical turk" separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of finding articles of value for reading on the front page.
Why then should we worry in any way if something gets submitted a second time? Why imply anyone's done anything wrong by participating in the community or attempting to bring something of value to the table?
The "Here's the list, now stop submitting anything on it" sentiment from the headline comes across with a tremendous chip on it's shoulder.
Is really just me that is getting that?
It is my strong opinion that this place (Hacker News) should be a little more humble than that. Oh, and a whole lot nicer.
The headline on this thread is based on a Straw-Man fallacy, and in my opinion has a nasty 'tone' to boot.
How can one assume omnipotence on the part of the submitter? They're somehow supposed to be aware of everything that has been submitted to HN? If the news engine doesn't detect it it's new - if the news engine does detect it, it's caught. So how can someone re-submit and article?