Can someone please explain this?<p>These two items point to the same URL (with a slight user-based URL "token" difference at the end; that's why it's not detected by HN as double).<p>1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529981
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296<p>The first one has 6 upvotes, the second one has 204.<p>The first one was published to HN much earlier (2016-09-19T09:13:07.000Z) than the second one (2016-09-19T20:10:34.000Z).<p>The first one was published by a user with 3052 karma, the second one by a user with 1476 karma, at the time of this writing.<p>What is going on?
First one was submitted at 2:13am on the US west coast; 2nd one was at 3:10pm. Obvious which would get more eyeballs.<p>As for dupe fairness, the 2 stories point to different domains (at least now), but even with the same domain, identifying what part of a domain to ignore for uniqueness isn't simple and dupes get through all the time.