I realize that your comment was mainly rhetorical but...
I don't have a problem with duplicates. I think a lot of things are worth reading/seeing/doing multiple times. Moreover I do no think or expect anyone to be perfect.
I do have a problem with Colin's crusade against duplicates. I don't think it sets the right tone for HN and it is a disincentive for people to submit things. I would rather have people feel free/comfortable submitting things and then let the up voting system separate the chaff. If you go through Colin's comments you can see hundreds of discussion ending comments about duplicate stories. Given his distaste for duplicates I found it disingenuous that he would bring up the problem of duplicates given his was the third duplicate in the list.
If its a recent exact duplicate the submission is merely another upvote and which is a neat function of the system (this happened to me recently with a story I submitted about correlation/causation that you had already submitted) If its a duplicate and boring it will be flagged or at the very least not up voted. If its a duplicate and people find it interesting it will be up voted. If a duplicate is up voted that I have read before I can choose to ignore it or read the discussion to see if there are new opinions. Duplicates are not a problem for me, reducing the likelihood of people contributing to HN is a problem.
I do have a problem with Colin's crusade against duplicates.
You should re-read his comments about duplicates more carefully if you think he is on a crusade.
Here is an excerpt from his most recent comment:
Those who are interested in this subject and want to
discuss it, you may be interested in seeing the points -
good and bad - that have been made on previous occasions
that this has been submitted. Here are a few previous
discussion:
That doesn't look like a crusade against duplicates to me. It looks helpful and I'm glad it's there.
Comments
Who the hell cares, you two? We're talking about it now. The system worked fine for this story. Can we move on from this sideshow?
This whole story generated a pretty great thread; why look for reasons to have a problem with that?
I realize that your comment was mainly rhetorical but...
I don't have a problem with duplicates. I think a lot of things are worth reading/seeing/doing multiple times. Moreover I do no think or expect anyone to be perfect.
I do have a problem with Colin's crusade against duplicates. I don't think it sets the right tone for HN and it is a disincentive for people to submit things. I would rather have people feel free/comfortable submitting things and then let the up voting system separate the chaff. If you go through Colin's comments you can see hundreds of discussion ending comments about duplicate stories. Given his distaste for duplicates I found it disingenuous that he would bring up the problem of duplicates given his was the third duplicate in the list.
If its a recent exact duplicate the submission is merely another upvote and which is a neat function of the system (this happened to me recently with a story I submitted about correlation/causation that you had already submitted) If its a duplicate and boring it will be flagged or at the very least not up voted. If its a duplicate and people find it interesting it will be up voted. If a duplicate is up voted that I have read before I can choose to ignore it or read the discussion to see if there are new opinions. Duplicates are not a problem for me, reducing the likelihood of people contributing to HN is a problem.
I do have a problem with Colin's crusade against duplicates.
You should re-read his comments about duplicates more carefully if you think he is on a crusade.
Here is an excerpt from his most recent comment:
That doesn't look like a crusade against duplicates to me. It looks helpful and I'm glad it's there.Duplicate discussions is not the same as duplcate submissions.