Discussion Why is Hacker News behaving in such an unfair way? Can someone please explain this?These two items point to the same URL (with a slight user-based URL "token" difference at the end; that's why it's not detected by HN as double).1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529981 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296The first one has 6 upvotes, the second one has 204.The first one was published to HN much earlier (2016-09-19T09:13:07.000Z) than the second one (2016-09-19T20:10:34.000Z).The first one was published by a user with 3052 karma, the second one by a user with 1476 karma, at the time of this writing.What is going on? 1 points oferzelig 10 years ago 7 comments
These two items point to the same URL (with a slight user-based URL "token" difference at the end; that's why it's not detected by HN as double).
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529981 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296
The first one has 6 upvotes, the second one has 204.
The first one was published to HN much earlier (2016-09-19T09:13:07.000Z) than the second one (2016-09-19T20:10:34.000Z).
The first one was published by a user with 3052 karma, the second one by a user with 1476 karma, at the time of this writing.
What is going on?