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Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25083315

• dang 2y ago
  On HN, reposts are fine (which is to say, aren't treated as dupes) when a story hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. But it's great to link to examples of past threads, because readers like to look at them—so this was a good contribution! just not with the tag "duplicate". Edit: basically, there are two disjoint cases when it makes sense to link to a previous submission of the same story: (1) when a prior submission of the same story had significant attention in the last year or so, then linking to it with the word "duplicate" or "dupe" is helpful; or (2) when a prior submission had significant attention more than a year ago, then linking to it with the phrase "past discussion" or "discussed at" (or something like that) is helpful. (And for completeness: when a submission has not gotten significant discussion, it's best not to link to it at all. There are plenty of those in the archives, and they're mostly harmless.)
  • dredmorbius 2y ago
    Thanks for that last note, it's been my argument for a while and I've had a few discussions with people on that point, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849927 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849927>. I'll try to remember this comment to share for those cases. I'll occasionally note recent prior posts which aren't dupes on account of minimal discussion (< 20 comments, generally), just because I remember those appearances and wasn't immediately sure myself whether or not the present submission counts as dupes or not. E.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186713>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41099760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41099760>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31864872 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31864872>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002384>, and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39242203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39242203> all below limits, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942714> just over the 1 year threshold. And for multiple posts on a given topic see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422938> (the indefagitable ChrisArchitect called the dupe, I explained it). 2nd chance queue can also cause confusion, generally not dupes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071219>.