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MichaelApproved 16y ago
Looks like 3 segments of the URL can be changed without causing a redirect. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/MichaelApproved/Is/Great/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/MichaelApproved/... The page canonical meta tag shows the current article url http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli... The previous article shows /2010/06 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-poli... Maybe HN should use canonical meta tag instead of just url to check for duplicates?
- 10ren 16y ago
  This is a feature, not a bug. There are many great articles that 1. are very helpful to read again; 2. you missed the first time; 3. newcomers haven't even had a chance to miss yet. Especially for newcomers, considering the rate that HN grows (an endless summer). But even more importantly, there are some articles that represent what HN is all about. There's a limited supply of great articles. If they cannot be reposted, how can newcomers ever learn what great articles are? Therefore, I suggest the opposite: automatic reposting - but only for those "great" articles, in the "HN library" (membership being defined by a special-case vote - i.e. vote for this article to be in the library). These would be reposted on a 6 month cycle, and include the old comments. Biannual resurrection. And to be marked as "library", so you can skip if you want. But this won't happen, because the existing "bug" already does it (if people vote it up, it was a reasonable repost; the present repost checker act as a low barrier). And pg advocates iteration only for things needed.
  - MichaelApproved 16y ago
    You should visit a hacker news twitter feed: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator http://twitter.com/newsycombinator It posts articles that make it into the top 5 of the site. Scroll through the past tweets to see what you've missed.
  - PidGin128 16y ago
    I dug through the guidelines and associated texts and couldn't find it, but I see it stated often enough that I don't mind sharing it: _Resubmissions are allowed after a year or so._ [beyond paraphrasing, completely reconstituting the thought, still meaningful however.] This solves all the problems in your first paragraph. Automatic re-posting is almost a guarantee if it's that good, so that's paragraph two handled.

Looks like 3 segments of the URL can be changed without causing a redirect. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/MichaelApproved/Is/Great/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/MichaelApproved/... The page canonical meta tag shows the current article url http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli... The previous article shows /2010/06 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ending-poverty/8134/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-poli... Maybe HN should use canonical meta tag instead of just url to check for duplicates?

10ren 16y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. There are many great articles that 1. are very helpful to read again; 2. you missed the first time; 3. newcomers haven't even had a chance to miss yet. Especially for newcomers, considering the rate that HN grows (an endless summer). But even more importantly, there are some articles that represent what HN is all about. There's a limited supply of great articles. If they cannot be reposted, how can newcomers ever learn what great articles are? Therefore, I suggest the opposite: automatic reposting - but only for those "great" articles, in the "HN library" (membership being defined by a special-case vote - i.e. vote for this article to be in the library). These would be reposted on a 6 month cycle, and include the old comments. Biannual resurrection. And to be marked as "library", so you can skip if you want. But this won't happen, because the existing "bug" already does it (if people vote it up, it was a reasonable repost; the present repost checker act as a low barrier). And pg advocates iteration only for things needed.
- MichaelApproved 16y ago
  You should visit a hacker news twitter feed: http://twitter.com/newsycombinator http://twitter.com/newsycombinator It posts articles that make it into the top 5 of the site. Scroll through the past tweets to see what you've missed.
- PidGin128 16y ago
  I dug through the guidelines and associated texts and couldn't find it, but I see it stated often enough that I don't mind sharing it: _Resubmissions are allowed after a year or so._ [beyond paraphrasing, completely reconstituting the thought, still meaningful however.] This solves all the problems in your first paragraph. Automatic re-posting is almost a guarantee if it's that good, so that's paragraph two handled.