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Which is weird in and of itself. Normally, submitting the same thing would get the first copy upvoted.

Just how were all those submissions bypassing that process?

EDIT: Here's the first link to it. It's the only submission by someone who joined over a year ago who has no comments and the default 1 karma. And it has an editorialized headline. I bet it would only take one flag to kill something like that. Then everything else would be marked as a dupe of something dead....

So much for "Don't be evil": How Google is doing evil in Kenya (co.ke)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459756



I'm guessing the dupe filter doesn't check [DEAD] links


You might be right. It might just auto-kill instead. Might be worth looking at the Arc source, but I'm about out of time right now.


Or upvote the killed story, sending the vote to /dev/null.




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