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This link has now been reposted 6 times in the past two weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645 htt

by 7ewis 7y ago

This link has now been reposted 6 times in the past two weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22720028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22720028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22806810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22806810

a13n 7y ago
So? Guidelines don't explicitly say this behavior is unallowed. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Sometimes posts that deserve to be on the front page don't make it. Seems fine to repost periodically as long as you aren't spamming many times per day.
paxys 7y ago
And yet it has only reached the front page once. Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. That is how online voting/aggregation systems work.
- kick 7y ago
  Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. This isn't true at all, for the record.
rattray 7y ago
None of them garnered any traction/comments, in case others were looking for that.
dang 7y ago
That's an indicator of interest. I actually emailed one of the submitters to repost the article for that reason. (Yes, we're thinking about software to detect cases like this.) On HN, a submission doesn't count as a dupe unless it has had significant attention. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
- 7ewis 7y ago
  Fair enough, only reason I noticed is because I was actually going to post this link yesterday but did a search to make sure sure I wasn't reposting. Plus they didn't get much traction anyway, so I wrongly assumed there wasn't interest. Know for the future now!

by 7ewis 7y ago

a13n 7y ago

So? Guidelines don't explicitly say this behavior is unallowed. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Sometimes posts that deserve to be on the front page don't make it. Seems fine to repost periodically as long as you aren't spamming many times per day.

paxys 7y ago

And yet it has only reached the front page once. Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. That is how online voting/aggregation systems work.

kick 7y ago
Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. This isn't true at all, for the record.

rattray 7y ago

None of them garnered any traction/comments, in case others were looking for that.

dang 7y ago

That's an indicator of interest. I actually emailed one of the submitters to repost the article for that reason. (Yes, we're thinking about software to detect cases like this.) On HN, a submission doesn't count as a dupe unless it has had significant attention. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

7ewis 7y ago
Fair enough, only reason I noticed is because I was actually going to post this link yesterday but did a search to make sure sure I wasn't reposting. Plus they didn't get much traction anyway, so I wrongly assumed there wasn't interest. Know for the future now!