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.