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It seems that this particular link was posted by the same poster 4 times over the past few weeks [0]. Given the pattern of repeat reposts I assumed it's an expe
by buran77 6y ago
It seems that this particular link was posted by the same poster 4 times over the past few weeks [0]. Given the pattern of repeat reposts I assumed it's an experiment to see which times are best to post to get more traction.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=panelbear.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=panelbear.com
- amzans 6y agoHey I'm the OP, the HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html "If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates." I reposted it several times over the past month. I'm sorry if that was too much, now I know that.
- buran77 6y ago> HN rules indicate that if a post didn't get enough attention that's alright Which is why I explicitly stated I assumed it's just an experiment of sorts and I didn't imply anything nefarious. The optics of posting the same links from the same websites suggest going beyond "I found this interesting" towards something more about getting the clicks. Sometimes HN is used just to garner audience, and while the letter of the rules may be observed, the spirit certainly isn't [0] (you may need to enable seeing dead threads). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to
- amzans 6y agoI just apologized if I reposted too often, I initially thought it was fine based on the guidelines. (To clarify, I’m not the one who downvoted your comment above)