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Ask HN: Duplicate post gets higher upvotes

by avighnay on 6/21/18, 8:38 AM with 2 comments

"Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try"

This article had been posted 8 hrs back by two members within 1 hr of each other. The first post is by a member having 200+ points and the second duplicate post by a member having 5000+ points.

The second post is now at the top of the page with more than 745+ upvotes, while the original post has quietly died to page 3 of HN.

Is this just how things are or does higher karma have advantages in posting?

  • by detaro on 6/21/18, 8:40 AM

    it happens all the time that duplicates are necessary for a story to get attention (and probably the reason why duplicates are allowed at all), and often the early submissions are by high-karma posters, so I don't think it plays a role.

  • by f311a on 6/21/18, 8:43 AM

    Original formula didn't count karma as a ranking factor. But who knows how it works today.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781417