It works for me, It looks like you've just pasted a ? on the URL.

LeonidasXIV · on July 15, 2014

I think it is about the old HN submission, which does not work for me either. It is just empty.

chton · on July 15, 2014

the original submission isn't showing up on search, and if I try to submit the normal url (kotlinlang.org), all I get is "Please try again". Calling this a wilful duplicate is stretching it.

Kiro · on July 15, 2014

A bannable offense in my opinion.

bjz_ · on July 15, 2014

I'm cool with somebody re-posting for a site update. I wouldn't have known they'd updated otherwise.

Kiro · on July 15, 2014

But allowing it encourages people to game the system by reposting things that have been upvoted before.

coldtea · on July 15, 2014

If those things are interesting enough to people (including those reading them for the first time on the nth posting), to be upvoted multiple times, then it's not "gaming the system".

What we should care about is if we have interesting articles to read -- and if people that might have missed something in the past have a chance to see it, that's for the better.

There have beens lots of very lively discussions on the 3rd and 4th posting of the same story, and I wouldn't want those people to miss the post entirely, or those conversations to never happen.

As for the duplicate poster getting points from something he knows will be popular again, well, nobody cares if he does get the points. HN is not some silly high score competition.

tern · on July 15, 2014

If they are still interesting, they will be upvoted again. If they are not, it will be a little extra noise in the system.