By coincidence, I just replied to you there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377284.

It's largely random which submission of a story gets traction on HN. We plan to make the dupe detector more sophisticated. One of our goals is to privilege the first submitter more often, because we hope that will incentivize people to submit more unique things, which should benefit the community. In the meantime, though, it's a lottery in any one instance—but it does even out in the long run, the more good stories you submit.

I am getting downvoted a lot and I really don't see why.

I didn't mean to be offensive towards the user that posted this entry, but just highlight this "issue".

My main "wtf" is due to the fact that in the past I submitted links that were already in the system and I got redirected to the comments page, as usual. Considering this is the exact case and there are eighteen hours between submission, i guessed this is a noticeable glitch.

So please, stop dowinvoting me.

I believe that comment is being down voted because of its feel and tone. It's a quick one-line complaint with a negative "low-class" abbreviation at the end. It's a little disrespectful to both the ycombinator (who's system is being criticized) and to the person who submitted the video with better luck than you had. People who read a comment like this are more likely to feel emotions of annoyance, mild anger, and contempt.

These things happen sometimes, you say something and it gets interpreted in a way you didn't intend. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Probably a better version of this comment would be something like: "I actually submitted this 18 hours before this one went up. It's funny how sometimes they catch and sometimes they don't. Super interesting video though, glad it's being appreciated!"

You're probably getting downvoted since your comment isn't relevant to this post.

Yes, it's probably a glitch in the HN dupe detector, but people didn't click through to this article to read about that.