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It's strange how often this article gets posted to hn. I have no idea what the appeal is but neither did I get it the last 6 or so times it was posted.

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seanhunter 3y ago
I'm getting downvoted perhaps for being a curmudgeon, which is fair, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 etc
- dang 3y ago
  Generally the convention is only to link to past threads that have comments - otherwise people click on links, find nothing there, and get ornery. In this case there's only one: To be great, be good repeatably - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 - June 2019 (46 comments) I realize your point was a different one about how many times the link gets submitted, but on HN, reposts are allowed unless the thread has had significant attention in the last year or so. A few submissions over a few years, involving one major thread, isn't excessive!
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    Sometimes I'll post an article and I will be redirected to an older but still somewhat recent thread that doesn't have any comments, so at what point should I be reposting an article to not have this happen?
    - dang 3y ago
      That happens for the first 8 hours.
      - satvikpendem 3y ago
        The posting on HN may be a few months old but I still get redirected, not a post that was submitted in the past 8 hours. Or am I misunderstanding?
        dang 3y ago
        The software will redirect you to a previous submission of the same (more or less) URL in each of these two cases: (1) the previous submission is 8 hours old or less; or (2) the previous submission is less than a year (or so) old and got significant attention. You shouldn't get redirected to a submission that is a few months old and didn't get many upvotes or comments. If the latter is what you're seeing, it might be a bug. Do you remember the link?
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sanp 3y ago
Perhaps the posters are getting good at posting this repeatedly and will eventually be great at posting this.
m463 3y ago
and you think .. yes, I will apply this to my life. is it not do anything well? so try doing a few good things? I will do the good things well. also I read "Don't let the great be the enemy of the good" etc. But sometimes you have to stop doing a lot of small good things to do great things. are the good things part of a great thing? or are they merely distractions? It seems perfectionism is a fault, but really the perfectionists are the ones we read about in the history books.
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seanhunter 3y ago

I'm getting downvoted perhaps for being a curmudgeon, which is fair, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29652029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25169061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 etc

dang 3y ago
Generally the convention is only to link to past threads that have comments - otherwise people click on links, find nothing there, and get ornery. In this case there's only one: To be great, be good repeatably - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167310 - June 2019 (46 comments) I realize your point was a different one about how many times the link gets submitted, but on HN, reposts are allowed unless the thread has had significant attention in the last year or so. A few submissions over a few years, involving one major thread, isn't excessive!
- satvikpendem 3y ago
  Sometimes I'll post an article and I will be redirected to an older but still somewhat recent thread that doesn't have any comments, so at what point should I be reposting an article to not have this happen?
  - dang 3y ago
    That happens for the first 8 hours.
    - satvikpendem 3y ago
      The posting on HN may be a few months old but I still get redirected, not a post that was submitted in the past 8 hours. Or am I misunderstanding?
      - dang 3y ago
        The software will redirect you to a previous submission of the same (more or less) URL in each of these two cases: (1) the previous submission is 8 hours old or less; or (2) the previous submission is less than a year (or so) old and got significant attention. You shouldn't get redirected to a submission that is a few months old and didn't get many upvotes or comments. If the latter is what you're seeing, it might be a bug. Do you remember the link?
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sanp 3y ago

Perhaps the posters are getting good at posting this repeatedly and will eventually be great at posting this.

m463 3y ago

and you think .. yes, I will apply this to my life. is it not do anything well? so try doing a few good things? I will do the good things well. also I read "Don't let the great be the enemy of the good" etc. But sometimes you have to stop doing a lot of small good things to do great things. are the good things part of a great thing? or are they merely distractions? It seems perfectionism is a fault, but really the perfectionists are the ones we read about in the history books.

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