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This has only been posted fourteen times before. Eight of those were by the current OP, "tomte". Whats up with that, Tomte?

by krunck 3y ago

pqdbr 3y ago
I visit HN daily more times I'd like to admit and I hadn't seen it before. If OP gets some karma every time he posts it, like he did from me this time, what's wrong with that?
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- mschuster91 3y ago
  They are quite the prolific poster - enough to not have the value shown in the HN leaderboard [1] O.o [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
klyrs 3y ago
I dunno anything about the user but they sumbit lots of stories every day. Just a wild-ass guess: there's a script underlying the submissions, which works from a finite pool of Tomte-curated links.
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re 3y ago
It got no traction any of the previous times, though, and has been posted approximately twice yearly, which isn't that excessive. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
- rKarpinski 3y ago
  > Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool Why are almost all the submissions on /pool by the same accounts (I see ~4 Tomte)? Are they the ones curating the pool?
leakybit 3y ago
The article is also old with outdated information
nostromo 3y ago
It is curious. They seem to repeatedly submit old stories over and over. Some other examples: 20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team - submitted 20 times over 7 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Tomte%20steve%20jobs%20ipod%20team&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Prefix for SQLite Tmpfiles - submitted 10 times over 7 years https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Tomte%20sqlite%20prefix&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... The submissions do seem to be good though. Perhaps they just re-read old articles occasionally and re-submit them.
- Teever 3y ago
  I've got a few links that I resubmit periodically to HN. I do that because they've never gained traction and I would like to see discussion about them.

This has only been posted fourteen times before. Eight of those were by the current OP, "tomte". Whats up with that, Tomte?

by krunck 3y ago

This has only been posted fourteen times before. Eight of those were by the current OP, "tomte". Whats up with that, Tomte?

pqdbr 3y ago

I visit HN daily more times I'd like to admit and I hadn't seen it before. If OP gets some karma every time he posts it, like he did from me this time, what's wrong with that?

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mschuster91 3y ago
They are quite the prolific poster - enough to not have the value shown in the HN leaderboard [1] O.o [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

klyrs 3y ago

I dunno anything about the user but they sumbit lots of stories every day. Just a wild-ass guess: there's a script underlying the submissions, which works from a finite pool of Tomte-curated links.

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re 3y ago

It got no traction any of the previous times, though, and has been posted approximately twice yearly, which isn't that excessive. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

rKarpinski 3y ago
> Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool Why are almost all the submissions on /pool by the same accounts (I see ~4 Tomte)? Are they the ones curating the pool?

leakybit 3y ago

The article is also old with outdated information

nostromo 3y ago

It is curious. They seem to repeatedly submit old stories over and over. Some other examples: 20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team - submitted 20 times over 7 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Tomte%20steve%20jobs%20ipod%20team&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Prefix for SQLite Tmpfiles - submitted 10 times over 7 years https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Tomte%20sqlite%20prefix&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... The submissions do seem to be good though. Perhaps they just re-read old articles occasionally and re-submit them.

Teever 3y ago
I've got a few links that I resubmit periodically to HN. I do that because they've never gained traction and I would like to see discussion about them.