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Ironically, this post resurfaced on HN with my comment here shown as if made 15 minutes ago, which I in reality did last week?
by cromka 3mo ago
Ironically, this post resurfaced on HN with my comment here shown as if made 15 minutes ago, which I in reality did last week?
- stymaar 3mo agoSecond chance pool, most likely.
- mh- 3mo agoI didn't realize that re-timestamped comments. That's a pretty unexpected behavior, if true. I wouldn't like if that happened to a comment I left - a lot can happen in a week.
- inigyou 3mo agoEvery time it happens there's a sub-thread asking about the weird timestamps and dang replies to it saying changing the timestamps is done so that there won't be a sub-thread about the weird timestamps.
- tayo42 3mo agoI'm pretty sure this comment chain is in every popular 2nd chance pool post though anyway
- stymaar 3mo agoTrue. I don't understand why they overwrite the date at all actually, for either the post or the comments, that sounds like the hackiest way of implementing the “second chance pool” feature.
- dredmorbius 3mo ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740177> (dang, on 2CP & timestamps). More: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>