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Because it's plain and simple manipulation. If it wasn't meant to manipulate the front page it wouldn't alter the timestamp.

• Arnavion 4y ago
  Yes, and it also changes the timestamps of the user comments to perpetuate the illusion.
  • taubek 4y ago
    Interesting. My submit didn't have comments so I didn't notice that :)
    • Arnavion 4y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937892
• bombcar 4y ago
  And just because it's manipulation doesn't mean it's bad (in my opinion) - it does what it intends to do and if it dies in second chance, it rots away. Any good community discussion site that maintains for years needs various forms of "manipulation", and this is a pretty minor one.
  • lzooz 4y ago
    Taking arbitrary submissions to the front page manually (without the necessary upvotes from users) and on top of that manipulating the timestamp so it looks like the submission is new and got there organically is bad.
    • bombcar 4y ago
      HN already automatically takes some of the new queue and puts it on the front page (there's always a very recent few votes link on any given homepage for a logged in user) - I see no problem with this at all. Adding an * footnoting what was done wouldn't serve much purpose.
    • macintux 4y ago
      “Bad” is subjective. Counter to your expectations, sure, but “bad” seems a bit of a simplistic take.
    • coldpie 4y ago
      Nah, I like it. I'm here for interesting news & discussion, not for a demonstration of some voting algorithm.