The U.S. government is about to bar the IRS from creating a free e-filing system
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There's got to be a less user-hostile way of handling deduplication, though I do appreciate that there are several conflicting objectives here. Maybe the annoyance could be partly mitigated by also transferring the upvotes so the original story has a chance of re-ranking on the hot page again.
You mention that it's user hostile. Can you explain why?