> Isn't the duplicate detection supposed to stop that?

This may be entirely made up, but I remember hearing that the duplication detection doesn't apply if a submission doesn't get a certain amount of attention. Looks like the only submission to get more than 3 points was 297 days ago.

You were wrong on the facts (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045, though there were so many it's easy to miss the big one), but right on the policy: not only did you not make it up, it's in the FAQ! Linked at bottom of every page.

> but right on the policy: not only did you not make it up, it's in the FAQ! Linked at bottom of every page.

Haha, my bad! I actually did try to search around for it, but it didn't occur to me to check the FAQ. I even checked the github mirror of the code [0] (no idea how up-to-date it is), but I can't read Arc very well. It just goes to show you could probably plaster rules like that as a header over the entire website and people like myself would still look in the wrong place :P

I have read the FAQ before, so that's probably where I "heard it", but I didn't think to check it this time.

[0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews

> you could probably plaster rules like that as a header over the entire website and people like myself would still look in the wrong place

That's very true. I even alluded to that in my comment but took it out as off-topic. It isn't you, though, it's everybody. Disseminating knowledge to the community is hard.

Yes. And some of these other positive comments around here are very suspicious.

Many of the positive comments are from other long time members of the Hacker News community...there's not a lot of green on this page.