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Please tag this as 2012. It would be interesting to see a summary of this issue since then -- has Amazon made this into a regular problem for their customers?
by josh_fyi 6y ago
Please tag this as 2012. It would be interesting to see a summary of this issue since then -- has Amazon made this into a regular problem for their customers?
- AnssiH 6y agoI already was thinking "huh, so maybe the Norwegian case a decade ago was not an outlier", but nope, this is again that same case that was widely reported at the time and seems to continue to resurface at times. Amazon claims in the article that one should not lose their access to their book library even if their account is blocked.
- Qwertious 6y agoI've seen this problem on /r/bestof on reddit - submitting 2011 comments and such, when everyone implicitly assumes comments submitted are present comments. IMO any sort of news/event post that's not recent (say, in the last month or so, or at least within a year of the posting date) should be required to add a "[2012]" (or whatever year it was posted) to the end of the title.
- lucideer 6y agoThe Guardian has an interesting article on their approach to this[0] but I'm not sure what the best solution to this globally is. You can't rely on publishers entirely, and yet posters & commenting platforms often have difficulty identifying the dates on posts from certain publications (especially small blogs). [0] https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2019/apr/02/why-were-making-the-age-of-our-journalism-clearer https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2019/apr/02/...
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThis is already the rule on HN, the submitter must have forgotten (it happens!). A mod will likely change the title.
- everybodyknows 6y agoPosting high-emotion old links seems a powerful vector for karma farming. Hope HN is taking (or already has?) steps to close the vulnerability. @dang?