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(We re-upped this post because it hadn't made the frontpage despite lots of upvotes - which happens sometimes. This explains why some of the comments have time
by dang 10mo ago
(We re-upped this post because it hadn't made the frontpage despite lots of upvotes - which happens sometimes.
This explains why some of the comments have timestamps that appear older than the post itself. I got tired of trying to make them line up, sorry!)
- mhitza 10mo agoWhat happens sometimes, artifical uplifting of posts, posts with high vote count that don't reach the frontpage, or both?
- dang 10mo agoI meant the latter, but both! Re artificial uplifting a.k.a. re-upping, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
- toast0 10mo ago> I got tired of trying to make them line up, sorry! IMHO, it's less disorienting to have the post dated after the comments than it is to see a comment you thought you wrote a couple days ago but is dated today. So you're welcome to stop trying to line up timestamps.
- Philpax 10mo agoAgreed, although perhaps not as strongly; I remember seeing these comments from a few days ago, so I was feeling a little gaslit seeing the new timestamps and wondered if I'd hallucinated the original thread.
- dang 10mo agoThe problem is that it leads to endless confusion that ends up taking over threads. We tried it! Status quo sucks also, it just sucks less. Haven't yet figured out an actually good solution. Sorry!
- skybrian 10mo agoHow about recording two dates on the post, the original post date and the re-upped date, and then putting something like "14 hours ago; originally 2 days ago" in the post header?
- simoncion 10mo agoHow about simply not tampering with the date on the post? The most I imagine most folks saying is "Didn't I see this post on the front page days ago?". For many other discussion fora, it's not uncommon for posts to be at the top of the pile for many days... so a days-old post date should be nothing unusual.
- dang 10mo agoThat's exactly what we tried and didn't work. The amount of noise it generated was vastly greater than the noise the status quo generates, unsatisfactory though it is.
- gnabgib 10mo agoYou already get that, if you hover over the submission time (it'll show the original submission time - days ago, while displaying "1 hour ago")
- skybrian 10mo agoIt seems too easy to miss.