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How come all top level comments are from the same time? ( for me, now, 47 minutes ago )

• MikeTheGreat 5y ago
  That's a really interesting observation! To be fair, there's only 4 top-level comments from that same time. Given a big enough audience it's reasonable to think that this would happen from time to time. There doesn't appear to be any particular bias / agenda from the posts (that I can see) so I'm guessing it's just coincidence.
  • the-dude 5y ago
    Ah, it seems to be a submission from the second hand pool ( https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool ). That would make sense, as it popped up on the FP?
• jsnell 5y ago
  I think it's a HN feature related to a post with existing comments being boosted to the frontpage by a moderator. The timestamps of both the post and the existing comments are faked for a time period to appear consistent with the time of the boost rather than the original post. I.e. all the comments were not posted at the same time just now, but over a longer time period hours ago.