> 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.ycombin

> 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).