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> You can post multiple times: HN understands that quality posts can go unnoticed, ... Yes, anecdata: A number of my own highest-quality finds have sink with b

> You can post multiple times: HN understands that quality posts can go unnoticed, ... Yes, anecdata: A number of my own highest-quality finds have sink with barely a ripple on the "new" page. > ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times. Most legit posters have better uses for their remaining lifetime minutes of brain activity than to game HN in such a tedious exercise. Various software mitigations to recover credit for otherwise lost quality posts occur to me, but the coding effort looks substantial.

dang 3y ago
What are some of the high-quality finds that sank without a trace? Maybe we could send repost invites to put them in the second-chance pool! (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)
- everybodyknows 3y ago
  Thanks for asking -- among the more recent I'd suggest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099
  - dang 3y ago
    Thanks! Those are more topical submissions than we would normally put in the second-chance pool. For that we're looking for more out-of-the-way stories, less in the flow of news or current affairs and of a little more deeper interest. The other thing about some of those submissions is that they're a bit on the political side—not so much as to be off topic for HN (there's inevitably some political overlap [1]) but again, not the sort of quieter/curious story that we're looking to augment. I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 has more of those qualities though, so I've sent you a repost invite for it :) [1] ;https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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linkdd 3y ago
> ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times. I don't even understand how that's possible. Every time I tried to post a link that was already posted (by me or someone else), it redirected me to the original post (and upvoted it if I wasn't the author). After observing that behavior 2 or 3 times, I assumed HN had some kind of deduplication system.
- kyleyeats 3y ago
  People used to throw a # on the end

dang 3y ago

What are some of the high-quality finds that sank without a trace? Maybe we could send repost invites to put them in the second-chance pool! (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)

everybodyknows 3y ago
Thanks for asking -- among the more recent I'd suggest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35116604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34882140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34790548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700099
- dang 3y ago
  Thanks! Those are more topical submissions than we would normally put in the second-chance pool. For that we're looking for more out-of-the-way stories, less in the flow of news or current affairs and of a little more deeper interest. The other thing about some of those submissions is that they're a bit on the political side—not so much as to be off topic for HN (there's inevitably some political overlap [1]) but again, not the sort of quieter/curious story that we're looking to augment. I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35319250 has more of those qualities though, so I've sent you a repost invite for it :) [1] ;https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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linkdd 3y ago

> ... so you can try the same post again. Don’t overdo it. I would say max 2 or 3 times. I don't even understand how that's possible. Every time I tried to post a link that was already posted (by me or someone else), it redirected me to the original post (and upvoted it if I wasn't the author). After observing that behavior 2 or 3 times, I assumed HN had some kind of deduplication system.

kyleyeats 3y ago
People used to throw a # on the end