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What is going on? This was actually submitted 11 hours ago, but now re-appears under the same HN URL on the front-page, saying it was submitted only 1 hour ago?

What is going on? This was actually submitted 11 hours ago, but now re-appears under the same HN URL on the front-page, saying it was submitted only 1 hour ago? On top of that all comments on it seem to have shifted by like 10 hours as well (busyant's comment is actually half a day old by now, not 40 minutes). You can see the timestamps don't match up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=breck https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=breck (says 11 hours ago). Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=busyant https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=busyant (says 10 hours ago on his comment on this submission).

dredmorbius 7y ago
Likely the 2nd chance queue. This is a process HN has devised to give selected submissions another chance at the front page. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
- chmod775 7y ago
  It's kind of problematic that they roll back the time on user comments as well. This kind of "rewriting history" can lead to all sorts of issues.
  - sbierwagen 7y ago
    How, specifically?
    - chmod775 7y ago
      You don't see how lying about when something was posted can lead to problems? Just making sure I'm answering the right question. The spectrum begins at me being slightly annoyed because I can't tell posts that were posted just now from posts that were posted hours ago. It probably ends at people arguing in court over such things as prior art in patent cases, or someone trying to submit an online comment as evidence. Imagine Facebook mucking with timestamps... Often when is pretty important. There's a lot of things in between there which I'll leave to your imagination. In any case, changing meta information silently can be as bad as silently changing the content of posts themselves and will hurt your credibility as a platform. The reddit CEO did it as a joke once, and that already caused a massive shitstorm[1]. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...

dredmorbius 7y ago

Likely the 2nd chance queue. This is a process HN has devised to give selected submissions another chance at the front page. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

chmod775 7y ago
It's kind of problematic that they roll back the time on user comments as well. This kind of "rewriting history" can lead to all sorts of issues.
- sbierwagen 7y ago
  How, specifically?
  - chmod775 7y ago
    You don't see how lying about when something was posted can lead to problems? Just making sure I'm answering the right question. The spectrum begins at me being slightly annoyed because I can't tell posts that were posted just now from posts that were posted hours ago. It probably ends at people arguing in court over such things as prior art in patent cases, or someone trying to submit an online comment as evidence. Imagine Facebook mucking with timestamps... Often when is pretty important. There's a lot of things in between there which I'll leave to your imagination. In any case, changing meta information silently can be as bad as silently changing the content of posts themselves and will hurt your credibility as a platform. The reddit CEO did it as a joke once, and that already caused a massive shitstorm[1]. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...