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Why all these duplicate submissions at HN?

3 pointsby re9over 2 years ago
https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34243896 https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=shifthappens.site<p>Seems to be happening way often. Is it hard to point out duplicate submission during submission so these just would not happen?

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gardenfelderover 2 years ago
Some observant HN users simply past prior HN links into recent posts on the same topic.<p>That, of course, is not a solution given the nature of how HN us used: see a cool page, drop it in HN - without looking first to see if it&#x27;s already there.<p>There are, of course, technical solutions to the problem.
nullish_signalover 2 years ago
An automated&#x2F;AI&#x2F;community system for merging&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;tagging duplicates would be nice<p>Now you basically just have to know there&#x27;s a dupe account&#x2F;link, say &quot;flagged for dupe&quot;, etc.... sorta clunky, I agree