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What's the point of this comment?
by crefiz 7mo ago
What's the point of this comment?
- oneeyedpigeon 7mo agodang is a mod—as far as I'm aware, they are the mod. When a previously-covered story crops up again, they typically add a comment like this with links to previous discussions, so you can easily see what was said before.
- dang 7mo agoone of the mods, along with tomhow! Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558671 - April 2025 (462 comments)
- dang 7mo agooneeyedpigeon already explained it, but allow me to follow up with more information:* You can see a zillion examples here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20related%20others&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... The purpose is to satisfy extra-curious readers (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20extra%20curious&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) who might want to read previous discussions of the same story. No criticism is intended! I add this because sometimes people think there's an implied "why did you repost this, it's already been discussed" - but not at all: reposts on HN are fine after about a year or so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20reposts%20year&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... * than you could possibly want, but oh well