Over the past day or so I've seen this story submitted many, many times. Mods - I know that some great stories slip through the net, so you now allow resubmission under some limited circumstances, but please can we have some way of correlating associated stories?
There are several other examples of this as well. I know that automatically identifying related stories is hard, but your audience can do it if you provide them with a simple interface.
This is a great story, but maybe we don't need 10 (and counting) submissions.
If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time...
I don't know what's to be done about it. HN don't seem to care and it seems like a huge number of visitors to the site just can't be bothered spending a few seconds to check whether or not a story has already been submitted, before adding their own noise to the signal.
From the website management point of view one difficulty is that; on the intarwebs in general, the vast majority of these stories originate from a single news agency or press release and are then mirrored across countless other 'news' sites. So, in effect the problem increases exponentially: one story source is republished across 20 different websites and then each of those 20 website articles is submitted to HN by 20 different people.
And yes, I'm aware of the problems you cite, and I'm explicitly suggesting a measure that could be taken to help fix what I see, and you acknowledge, is an irritation.
There are several other examples of this as well. I know that automatically identifying related stories is hard, but your audience can do it if you provide them with a simple interface.
This is a great story, but maybe we don't need 10 (and counting) submissions.
For reference:
Curious which one you think is the best of breed.
You must be new here!
If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time...
I don't know what's to be done about it. HN don't seem to care and it seems like a huge number of visitors to the site just can't be bothered spending a few seconds to check whether or not a story has already been submitted, before adding their own noise to the signal.
From the website management point of view one difficulty is that; on the intarwebs in general, the vast majority of these stories originate from a single news agency or press release and are then mirrored across countless other 'news' sites. So, in effect the problem increases exponentially: one story source is republished across 20 different websites and then each of those 20 website articles is submitted to HN by 20 different people.
I'm trying to work out if you're being serious.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders we have:
So no, I'm not new here.
And yes, I'm aware of the problems you cite, and I'm explicitly suggesting a measure that could be taken to help fix what I see, and you acknowledge, is an irritation.