On an article that got flagged to death within 25 minutes of hitting the front page and therefore stands no chance of developing into a decent conversation. Tha

On an article that got flagged to death within 25 minutes of hitting the front page and therefore stands no chance of developing into a decent conversation. That's only long enough for surface-level reactions and hot takes. HN is not a curated map of links to discussions, it's a forum, a set of link-discussion pairs. If a discussion fails to take off and receive "significant attention" [0] there's nothing wrong with resubmitting it, much as that may offend your sensibilities. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html