On: Tell HN: After six days of DupDetector, time to take stock.

[oomkiller]

It would have been fine if you ran the experiment, WITHOUT polluting the comments with useless dupe links. You could then write up a blog post or something showing what you had found.

[tvon → oomkiller]

The dupe links seemed useful to me. If something has already been discussed at length, I'd like to know about it.

[oomkiller → tvon]

That's a fair point, but still, the posts were made by a bot, who can't decide if there is useful discussion on another page or not.

[sp332 → oomkiller]

DupDetector can tell if there's a discussion by the number of comments, and it uses points to determine the "usefulness" of the discussion. You can find examples here: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DupDetector