diff --git a/docs/guides/3-javascript.md b/docs/guides/3-javascript.md
index 50cd0b4eb..d60ac9d13 100644
--- a/docs/guides/3-javascript.md
+++ b/docs/guides/3-javascript.md
@@ -132,28 +132,3 @@ const spectral = new Spectral({ resolver: customFileResolver });
 The custom resolver we've just created will resolve all remote file refs relatively to the current working directory.
 
 More on that can be found in the [json-ref-resolver repo](https://github.com/stoplightio/json-ref-resolver).
-
-### Using a Custom De-duplication Strategy
-
-By default, Spectral will de-duplicate results based on the result code and document location. You can customize this
-behavior with the `computeFingerprint` option. For example, here is the default fingerprint implementation:
-
-The final reported results are de-duplicated based on their computed fingerprint.
-
-```ts
-const spectral = new Spectral({
-  computeFingerprint: (rule: IRuleResult, hash) => {
-    let id = String(rule.code);
-
-    if (rule.path && rule.path.length) {
-      id += JSON.stringify(rule.path);
-    } else if (rule.range) {
-      id += JSON.stringify(rule.range);
-    }
-
-    if (rule.source) id += rule.source;
-
-    return hash(id);
-  },
-});
-```
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/__fixtures__/non-duplicate-validation-results.json b/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/__fixtures__/non-duplicate-validation-results.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bbee30ae0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/__fixtures__/non-duplicate-validation-results.json
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+[
+  {
+    "code": "valid-schema-example-in-content",
+    "message": "\"schema.example\" property type should be integer",
+    "path": [
+      "paths",
+      "/resource",
+      "get",
+      "responses",
+      "200",
+      "content",
+      "application/json",
+      "schema",
+      "example"
+    ],
+    "severity": 0,
+    "range": {
+      "start": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 15
+      },
+      "end": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 19
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "code": "valid-schema-example-in-content",
+    "message": "\"schema.example\" has some other valid problem",
+    "path": [
+      "paths",
+      "/resource",
+      "get",
+      "responses",
+      "200",
+      "content",
+      "application/json",
+      "schema",
+      "example"
+    ],
+    "severity": 0,
+    "range": {
+      "start": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 15
+      },
+      "end": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 19
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "code": "valid-schema-example-in-content",
+    "message": "\"schema.example\" property type should be integer",
+    "path": [
+      "paths",
+      "/resource",
+      "get",
+      "responses",
+      "200",
+      "content",
+      "application/json",
+      "schema",
+      "example"
+    ],
+    "severity": 0,
+    "range": {
+      "start": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 15
+      },
+      "end": {
+        "line": 20,
+        "character": 19
+      }
+    }
+  }
+]
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/prepareResults.test.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/prepareResults.test.ts
index 02c8c7b41..16ccc73bf 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/prepareResults.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/__tests__/prepareResults.test.ts
@@ -40,4 +40,16 @@ describe('prepareResults util', () => {
 
     expect(prepareResults(onlyDuplicates, defaultComputeResultFingerprint).length).toBe(1);
   });
+
+  it('deduplicate only exact validation results', () => {
+    // verifies that results with the same code/path but different messages will not be de-duplicated
+    expect(prepareResults(duplicateValidationResults, defaultComputeResultFingerprint)).toEqual([
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        code: 'valid-example-in-schemas',
+      }),
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        code: 'valid-schema-example-in-content',
+      }),
+    ]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/prepareResults.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/prepareResults.ts
index 634865962..4b220fa54 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/prepareResults.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/prepareResults.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ export const defaultComputeResultFingerprint: ComputeFingerprintFunc = (rule, ha
     id += rule.source;
   }
 
+  if (rule.message !== void 0) {
+    id += rule.message;
+  }
+
   return hash(id);
 };