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		staunch on Sept 29, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to hit the Hacker News front page (and what it... Easy fix: submitting a duplicate URL should not cause an automatic upvote. This has always seemed a bit off to me.

blasdel on Sept 29, 2010 [–]

A thousand times no!

That's the only way any non-groupthink content gets to the front page, and most of the time it fails anyway because a dozen submission-upvotes were spread out over a day or two. If anything more weight should be applied to it to counteract aging.

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