Firehose (I think that's what it's called) posts are moderated before they hit the main site. They can be voted up or down and one of the "down" categories is "dupe". Once a story has passed that hurdle it's too late.
Quite a few stories never show up in the firehose though. And for the stories in the firehose there's no indication that they've led to a homepage story (at least nothing visible to us), so 2 editors may be able to generate homepage stories from the same FH source.
Again? (Score:4, Interesting)
How many of these fugitives are hiding on the Cooking Channel? /s
Well the previous post was on Tuesday:
https://entertainment.slashdot... [slashdot.org]
Wish there was a way to point out dupes...
Re:Again? (Score:4, Informative)
Firehose (I think that's what it's called) posts are moderated before they hit the main site. They can be voted up or down and one of the "down" categories is "dupe". Once a story has passed that hurdle it's too late.
Re: (Score:2)
Quite a few stories never show up in the firehose though. And for the stories in the firehose there's no indication that they've led to a homepage story (at least nothing visible to us), so 2 editors may be able to generate homepage stories from the same FH source.