Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines

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Post by andreyf » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:30 PM UTC

Kind reminder: please (re)read the HN guidelines
ycombinator.com

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Post by j_baker » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

Done. What do I win?

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Post by ljf » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

thanks hopefully this can stay near the top for a while. been getting a lot of off topic posts again recently; adverts, thinly veiled spam, repeat posts etc.

one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart.

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Post by spooneybarger » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:52 PM UTC

ljf wrote: post #3

thanks hopefully this can stay near the top for a while. been getting a lot of off topic posts again recently; adverts, thinly veiled spam, repeat posts etc. one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart.

"one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart."

I don't. I think it is sometimes a symptom of a different problem. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634847

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Post by duke_sam » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:54 PM UTC

ljf wrote: post #3

thanks hopefully this can stay near the top for a while. been getting a lot of off topic posts again recently; adverts, thinly veiled spam, repeat posts etc. one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart.

I'm pretty sure if you try to submit the same link multiple times HN will show you the originally submitted story.

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Post by sp332 » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:59 PM UTC

duke_sam wrote: post #5

ljf wrote: post #3

thanks hopefully this can stay near the top for a while. been getting a lot of off topic posts again recently; adverts, thinly veiled spam, repeat posts etc. one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart.

I'm pretty sure if you try to submit the same link multiple times HN will show you the originally submitted story.

It doesn't always work though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632572 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630579 were posted one day apart, with identical URLs.

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Post by swombat » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 5:59 PM UTC

Yes, yes, HN is going to the dogs, it's not as good as it used to be, it's all because of the new users, and so on and so on. It's been like that since I joined two and a half years ago.

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Post by ptomato » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 6:01 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #6

duke_sam wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure if you try to submit the same link multiple times HN will show you the originally submitted story.

It doesn't always work though. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1632572 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1630579 were posted one day apart, with identical URLs.

Actually the link checker only checks vs. links that are currently loaded into memory.

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Post by Vivtek » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 6:02 PM UTC

duke_sam wrote: post #5

ljf wrote: post #3

thanks hopefully this can stay near the top for a while. been getting a lot of off topic posts again recently; adverts, thinly veiled spam, repeat posts etc. one thing i do wish hn had is a link/title checker to stop people all linking to same story hours or days apart.

I'm pretty sure if you try to submit the same link multiple times HN will show you the originally submitted story.

I can confirm that this works if the URL is exactly identical - it happened to me and I was quite pleased.

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Post by Vivtek » Mon, Aug 30, 2010, 6:02 PM UTC

I'm pleased to see that I am officially allowed to complain that HNN is getting to be just like Reddit.