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Why not keep this entry and migrate the comments from the older one here?
by huhtenberg 10y ago
Why not keep this entry and migrate the comments from the older one here?
- dang 10y agoHN's rule is that if a story has had major attention in the last year or so, and no new information has come up, then we treat it as a dupe and keep it off the front page. Mainly because front page space is so limited, and also because if we didn't do that, HN would be flooded with complaints about reposts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- huhtenberg 10y agoA year for threshold seems to be an overkill. A repost from the last week is indeed a waste of a FP space, but from 6 months ago? Especially for a static article where HN comments are as a good read as the article itself. I'd say the rule may need a revision. Besides, HN rules have always been "more what you call guidelines, than actual rules" :)