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Well, I have no official standing, I'm just a user, but I find your actions with regards modifying the URL and resubmitting old, high-karma items less than hono

Well, I have no official standing, I'm just a user, but I find your actions with regards modifying the URL and resubmitting old, high-karma items less than honorable. No doubt others will find it useful, especially those newer to the site who won't have seen the originals, but to me it's just polluting the stream with old material, to the possible and probably detriment of valuable items.

Natsu 16y ago
I dislike the whole karma farming business, but the article itself is very interesting and I missed it the first time around.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  There are literally hundreds of brilliant articles in HNs history. Learn to mine them for yourself and there's treasure to be found. Don't rely on other people to do your work, in this case learning for yourself is very useful. After all: "Give a man a match and he's warm for a moment, set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."
  - Natsu 16y ago
    That's a very good point. Speaking of which, thank you for the link to the old one. The comments there were very informative.
    - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
      You're welcome.
      - Natsu 16y ago
        Speaking of which, I've seen you pull out links to dupes probably dozens of times. I assume you're taking your own advice and have a means of mining old HN articles? I have a pretty good memory, but I don't think I would've caught all of those without some computerized help. You also gave me the idea that maybe there should be an application to trawl through old HN articles looking for good ones (probably excluding old hiring threads and the like), but it's such a simple idea that I'm assuming that someone has already built essentially that and I don't know about it. SearchYC's top feature is close, but not quite what I have in mind. Interestingly, I noticed that one of the top comments ever according to SearchYC is from btilly commenting on the original article. The other top comment makes me wish that btilly had taught math at my university.
        RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
        I usually recognise things, and then use SearchYC for them. I do also have an interest in the old, good articles, and I'm working on a system to make them more readily available, accessible, browsable and discoverable. If anything comes of it I'll certainly announce it here, if I'm still here.
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shawndumas 16y ago
First of all you're not just a user. I think you're a valuable assist in the service you provide. Second; I have a ton of karma that has nothing to do with older posts. Third; I missed this article the first time myself -- and I am here a lot.

Natsu 16y ago

I dislike the whole karma farming business, but the article itself is very interesting and I missed it the first time around.

RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
There are literally hundreds of brilliant articles in HNs history. Learn to mine them for yourself and there's treasure to be found. Don't rely on other people to do your work, in this case learning for yourself is very useful. After all: "Give a man a match and he's warm for a moment, set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life."
- Natsu 16y ago
  That's a very good point. Speaking of which, thank you for the link to the old one. The comments there were very informative.
  - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    You're welcome.
    - Natsu 16y ago
      Speaking of which, I've seen you pull out links to dupes probably dozens of times. I assume you're taking your own advice and have a means of mining old HN articles? I have a pretty good memory, but I don't think I would've caught all of those without some computerized help. You also gave me the idea that maybe there should be an application to trawl through old HN articles looking for good ones (probably excluding old hiring threads and the like), but it's such a simple idea that I'm assuming that someone has already built essentially that and I don't know about it. SearchYC's top feature is close, but not quite what I have in mind. Interestingly, I noticed that one of the top comments ever according to SearchYC is from btilly commenting on the original article. The other top comment makes me wish that btilly had taught math at my university.
      - RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
        I usually recognise things, and then use SearchYC for them. I do also have an interest in the old, good articles, and I'm working on a system to make them more readily available, accessible, browsable and discoverable. If anything comes of it I'll certainly announce it here, if I'm still here.

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shawndumas 16y ago

First of all you're not just a user. I think you're a valuable assist in the service you provide. Second; I have a ton of karma that has nothing to do with older posts. Third; I missed this article the first time myself -- and I am here a lot.