Do dupe's get necessarily de-ranked ?

If it has active participation in the form of new comments, it makes sense to merge the comments and not penalize the post.

If you email the mods and ask them to do so, they’ll either agree or let you know why they didn’t. I don’t have a solid enough grasp on how their logic works to predict the outcome here.

> Dupe's

It gets tiring to watch over autocorrects <sigh>

> Discussion from 3 days ago: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=48504361

That post:

> 140 points by mrmarket 3 days ago | unvote | flag | hide | past | favorite | 110 comments

This post:

> 626 points by vrnvu 8 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 431 comments

IMHO, it's not a dup, because it's getting a lot more traction today.

The previous thread was only on the frontpage for 30 minutes so we can let this one stay up.

(I've taken "the fuck" out of the title - we don't care about profanity per se but that bit is a little linkbaity in this case.)