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This is strange - this post is on the front page right now. It says that I submitted it eight hours ago. I was asleep eight hours ago. I submitted this last wee

This is strange - this post is on the front page right now. It says that I submitted it eight hours ago. I was asleep eight hours ago. I submitted this last week and it did not get any points hardly but now it is on the front page with an incorrect timestamp but still attributed to my user account.

t-3 1y ago
Someone else must have submitted the same link, which resurrected your original submission. I'm not sure what the time-limit is for duplicate submissions to become resurrections, but the second submission will be transformed into an upvote for the original from the second submitter and resetting the submission date.
- detaro 1y ago
  No, that's something moderators decide and do. "second-chance pool" is the term to search if you want to read dangs explanations of it.
  - t-3 1y ago
    No? When I've inadvertently submitted duplicates before, my submitted dupe was not ever in the article queue, it was immediately and automatically changed into an upvote for the original.
    - detaro 1y ago
      But that doesn't reset the submission date, its just an upvote. Second-chance pool rewrites the timestamp (and thus boosts a post up the ranking, since age is a big factor in the ranking algorithm), and has nothing to do with a second user submitting it.
Aurornis 1y ago
Second Chance Pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool Many submissions get overlooked the first time and then get nominated for a second chance.
- deleted 1y ago
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- rendaw 1y ago
  I think the second chance pool is great but why rewrite the metadata with false info? It just confuses everyone. This isn't the first, and it won't be the last.
rightbyte 1y ago
It is by design as I understand it, to make it look fresh after given a "second chance"? It gave me some surreal deja vus before I realized what was going on when I saw I comment I my self had written and knew when it was actually written.

t-3 1y ago

Someone else must have submitted the same link, which resurrected your original submission. I'm not sure what the time-limit is for duplicate submissions to become resurrections, but the second submission will be transformed into an upvote for the original from the second submitter and resetting the submission date.

detaro 1y ago
No, that's something moderators decide and do. "second-chance pool" is the term to search if you want to read dangs explanations of it.
- t-3 1y ago
  No? When I've inadvertently submitted duplicates before, my submitted dupe was not ever in the article queue, it was immediately and automatically changed into an upvote for the original.
  - detaro 1y ago
    But that doesn't reset the submission date, its just an upvote. Second-chance pool rewrites the timestamp (and thus boosts a post up the ranking, since age is a big factor in the ranking algorithm), and has nothing to do with a second user submitting it.

Aurornis 1y ago

Second Chance Pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool Many submissions get overlooked the first time and then get nominated for a second chance.

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rendaw 1y ago
I think the second chance pool is great but why rewrite the metadata with false info? It just confuses everyone. This isn't the first, and it won't be the last.

rightbyte 1y ago

It is by design as I understand it, to make it look fresh after given a "second chance"? It gave me some surreal deja vus before I realized what was going on when I saw I comment I my self had written and knew when it was actually written.