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Why don't you just bump the post to newest if someone attempted to resubmit it?
by chx 7y ago
Why don't you just bump the post to newest if someone attempted to resubmit it?
- dang 7y agoI don't understand what you mean exactly.
- chx 7y agoLet's presume http://example.com http://example.com was never submitted. So, when it is submitted, it is on the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest but it doesn't get much attention. Now let's resubmit http://example.com http://example.com a few days later. It should be on top of https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest again. But not as a new post. No, the first submission should be moved up here. Obviously after some time / amount of comments this makes no sense, people resubmit years old links etc but thresholds can be set.
- dang 7y agoThanks, I see what you mean now. If we did that then /newest would no longer be a simple chronological log of everything posted to HN.