Today I submitted a story failing to realize that it was already covered (though was not the primary focus of) in an earlier accepted submission that I had simply forgotten about. We rightly complain about dupes, but if a story submitter realizes that something should be rejected for that reason there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to retract ones own submissions or at least leave a comment explaining that the story ought to be rejected.
Edit: Looking a bit closer, it's not actually mentioned in the Soylent summary though is mentioned in the linked article. It's only semi-dupe. Still a bit questionable but it's something that wasn't discussed at all in the earlier story so maybe still fine to run.
(Score: 2) by N3Roaster on Thursday December 04 2014, @10:48PM
Fair enough. It's probably not the best place to put development effort right now and it doesn't bother me enough to try to remember Perl.
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(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:11PM
Still ; if what you end up with is a followup to something we just ran; give it a week and send in the submission with the new angle.
(Score: 2) by N3Roaster on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:23PM
That's pretty much what happened here. The story ran, there was some decent discussion. Letting it go up was probably the right call.
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