Digg’s Unbelievably Embarrassing Dupe Detection Fail [Pic]

Digg’s Unbelievably Embarrassing Dupe Detection Fail [Pic]

Earlier today, Digg introduced a new system to avoid the problem of two versions of the same story making it to the Digg homepage.

Digg explains the technical solution in-depth on their blog, but we’d simply like to know this: if this system is so great, how did two stories about the new Digg duplicate detection make it to the Digg homepage, one on top of the other nonetheless, as you can see in the screenshot below:

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