HN Duplicate Submissions
Users complain about, flag, and discuss duplicate story submissions on Hacker News, often questioning or critiquing the site's dupe detection system and submission policies.
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This was a dupe from an article posted 2 days ago. Not sure why it wasn't detected.
Wasn't this posted here twice already?
that's a dupe of this one..if you look at the time posted, you'll see this one is a head a handful of seconds.
This is a dupe of something submitted earlier this morning. Was the original deleted for some reason?
If you're going to report as dupe, please provide the link to the previous appearance
This is a dupe from earlier today.
Dupe. Has been posted several times today.
Somehow a dupe got posted. Sorry.
Huh, how did that get past the dupe detector? It's exactly the same URL.
you clearly know this submission is a duplicate, please don't copy-paste the same comment to all of them. Link the previous & flag instead please.