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The comments were not identical. He starts the repost with: "Aaah, feels like a good time for me to recycle an oldie but goodie from #245 here: ...." If I was
by dfc 10y ago
The comments were not identical. He starts the repost with:
"Aaah, feels like a good time for me to recycle an oldie but goodie from #245 here: ...."
If I was listening to the radio and I heard Milli Vanilli say something about dusting off a blast from the past my reaction would probably be to change the channel, not turn up the volume.
- JadeNB 10y ago> If I was listening to the radio and I heard Milli Vanilli say something about dusting off a blast from the past my reaction would probably be to change the channel, not turn up the volume. Indeed, what I take you to be saying is was what I meant; not necessarily that HN now has less taste for long-form comments, but rather that people are less likely to read, and therefore to upvote, a comment that is prefaced with a statement that it is a duplicate. (I agree that what you have highlighted is an important sense in which the comments are not identical.)
- dfc 10y agoGot it. The whole complaint was intellectually bankrupt. Even if the comments were identical I don't understand why they would be expected to score the same way.