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It's a generic Apple documentation page about a story that's had a tremendous amount of HN coverage. As you can see the thread is basically the same as the othe
by pvg 3y ago
It's a generic Apple documentation page about a story that's had a tremendous amount of HN coverage. As you can see the thread is basically the same as the other threads. Those get moderated as dupes (follow-up dupes, 'quasi dupes' etc). You can search dang's moderation comments about these, it's fairly fundamental to how HN works otherwise specific topics would dominate the front page endlessly and the site would not be interesting. Just in the last couple of weeks:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618673
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528134
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563618
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589483
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643981
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418412
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418386
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408196
These are just some of the biggest threads and they have, collectively, several thousand (edit: I added them up - 4831 comments) between them.
- consumer451 3y agoThanks for the reply. I posted the generic page as it was the authoritative source, and had not appeared to be submitted yet. My original idea was to post the first approved EU Apple approved marketplace, but that looked like a press release and seemed not very HN worthy.
- pvg 3y agoThanks for the reply. I'm just some random messageboard schmoe, if you want something official from HN you should email hn@ycombinator.com. But again, check out the moderation comments. Dupes on HN are sort of 'by value' rather than by reference, yet-another-Apple-and-DMA thread is still yet-another-Apple-and-DMA thread, independent of the precise URL it hangs off.
- consumer451 3y agoYeah, this is the type of reason that in the end, I don’t “give up on this website.” :] My apologies for getting emotional.