Why don't you read your own website? It's obvious that you don't, due to the sheer number of duplicate stories that appear, well into 2011. I'm a big fan of the "two stories posted on the front page at the same time" method as well as the "we posted this two months ago and yet I'm treating it as if it just happened because obviously I didn't keep up with my own website."
Believe it or not, we do read and sign off on every story. Alas, when you've posted thousands upon thousands of stories, a dupe occasionally slips through the cracks.
Still, we try hard not to let it happen (and we do catch the vast, vast majority of duplicate submissions). When it does, we're usually aware of it within a couple minutes of the story going live. But, at that point, there are usually comments, and we're strongly against deleting or hiding what you folks write. So we leave them up, and the few thousand that see it quickly become a few tens of thousands, which inevitably brings a certain amount of disparaging comments. But that's ok.
For any of you who take a peek at the Firehose every so often, tagging things as a dupe there, or leaving a comment saying as much, certainly helps. We do look.
I'm pretty sure you don't post "thousands upon thousands" of stories each day, and yet not a week goes by that someone (usually you) posts something that was on the front page three hours before.
"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
To Samzenpus, timothy and Soulskill: (Score:-1, Flamebait)
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Don't be an ass.
That is all.
Re:To Samzenpus, timothy and Soulskill: (Score:5, Insightful)
Believe it or not, we do read and sign off on every story. Alas, when you've posted thousands upon thousands of stories, a dupe occasionally slips through the cracks.
Still, we try hard not to let it happen (and we do catch the vast, vast majority of duplicate submissions). When it does, we're usually aware of it within a couple minutes of the story going live. But, at that point, there are usually comments, and we're strongly against deleting or hiding what you folks write. So we leave them up, and the few thousand that see it quickly become a few tens of thousands, which inevitably brings a certain amount of disparaging comments. But that's ok.
For any of you who take a peek at the Firehose every so often, tagging things as a dupe there, or leaving a comment saying as much, certainly helps. We do look.
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Plausible explanation for dupes?!
La la la la la la! I can't hear you!
Re: (Score:2, Flamebait)
I'm pretty sure you don't post "thousands upon thousands" of stories each day, and yet not a week goes by that someone (usually you) posts something that was on the front page three hours before.