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What was your signal that it was bumped by mods?

• Jtsummers 4y ago
  It came out of the second chance pool (go to the bottom, Lists -> Pool). Originally posted yesterday.
• dec0dedab0de 4y ago
  The original few comments had different timestamps if you clicked on them. That seems to have been updated since, but if you look in the commenters history it still has the old time stamp. It could just be an unrelated glitch, but my guess is that the story was submitted yesterday, never made it past new, and one of the mods thought it was important enough to deserve a boost and reposted it. Or maybe there was a natural dupe unrelated to mods. but then the two threads merged and the previous comments had their timestamps updated. Maybe there was a validation error and it was done manually to have the timestamps on the comments be larger than the timestamp on the story, or maybe its a bug in the merging process. really it was just a guess at hn internals.
  • Jtsummers 4y ago
    It's not a glitch or an error, it's how the second chance pool works. They give them a new time when they get a fresh start. Their timestamp is temporarily updated, and any existing comments get that same timestamp. I think (but have never seen this confirmed) that this is a way to game the existing voting system (posts are ranked by a combination of votes, age, and comment activity). By giving them an artificially "young" age they move up in the ranking to hit the front page, giving them a chance for more votes (to remain on the front page) and comments. After a few hours the original timestamp gets restored. Revisit this tomorrow (certainly) or in a few hours and the times will change.