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I am not sure if this is criticism for too many reposts or if once a year is considered a healthy dose of dupes.
by jansan 3y ago
I am not sure if this is criticism for too many reposts or if once a year is considered a healthy dose of dupes.
- thierrydamiba 3y agoFor what it’s worth I check the site fairly frequently and this is my first time seeing this. It would be interesting if there was a way to mark links as seen so they could be removed from your feed in the future for people who don’t care for reposts.
- pvg 3y agoIt's so that people can see the previous discussion if interested. 'about once a year' does happen to be the frequency at which reposts don't count as dupes on HN but that's somewhat incidental.
- pard68 3y agodang (the moderator of hn) does this for many/most common reposts. It is done without comment or implications.
- dang 3y agoIt's just for fun and interest, as the other replies have pointed out. I've added my standard disclaimer to the comment above. Reposts are fine after a year or so! This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
- alentred 3y agoThank you for the link to the FAQ! Unless I blacked it out, I don't think I have read it before. Now that I know it exists I can see it clearly in the page footer, alongside the Guidelines... I will go and read those, but I also wonder if this should be reposted from time to time too.