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Why does this say it was posted four hours ago on the front page, four days ago on Agolia, 3 days ago on /from and the comments are all from minutes to hours ag

• noodletheworld 2y ago
  The threads have presumably been merged; look at the submitters in the history. > 166 points|ksec|4 days ago|21 comments > 168 points by ksec 4 hours ago But yes; it’s a bit dodgy to resurface old news like this imo and pretend it’s new news. I’d go as far as to say that being at #1, under the circumstances, means it’s been artificially boosted somehow. I haven’t the foggiest why anyone would bother though.
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• thinkingemote 2y ago
  at least 2 ways. 1. Moderators can re-submit interesting stories from a second chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (This might happen automatically from time to time?) When this happens some of the timestamps get updated but others dont. 2. Moderators can invite users via email to re-submit stories. https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited