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I was also surprised to learn that HN allowed this. Even more surprising is the fact that sometimes it doesn't allow to re-post posts that are months old. I wis
by bibyte 8y ago
I was also surprised to learn that HN allowed this. Even more surprising is the fact that sometimes it doesn't allow to re-post posts that are months old. I wish it was more clearly documented in the FAQ.
- sctb 8y ago> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html This is what's going on. The previous submission didn't get any attention (votes, discussion) so the repost was allowed after a certain time threshold (about 8 hours).
- tomrod 8y agoI appreciate the clarification.