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HN does not allow the same URL to be submitted during a certain window of time. After that window has expired, it can be reposted. This is a feature, not a bug.
by scott_s 14y ago
HN does not allow the same URL to be submitted during a certain window of time. After that window has expired, it can be reposted. This is a feature, not a bug.
- ehsanu1 14y agoI think it's actually a bit more random than that. Sometime in the last few years on HN I seem to recall reading that it was a function of whether the URL posted is in some cache or not. If that's true, then recently accessed article can't be reposted.
- derleth 14y agoIf that's true, then I think we can take it to mean pg really doesn't care about reposts. Whether the HN culture as a whole dislikes reposts is another matter (in my experience it does not) but it does take one argument away from the people who think reposts are contrary to what we do around here.