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Ask HN: Is it worth upvoting old submissions?
I've been very busy lately so I've added a lot of stories submitted here to my "read later" folders. Going over them today I find myself "resubmitting" them on HN so they get the upvote they deserve from me.
Is that of any use though? Does anyone look at old stories, if there is such a functionality even?
- benologist 14y agoI don't think there's much value in them. Most of them are less relevant over time, you have to search an external site to find them, and the chances of anybody replying are pretty bad. Most damning of all is Digg relaunched with a clean slate!
- goblin89 14y agoPersonally, I pretty often search HN with Google, and read old comments. (Basically, when researching some topics, I query Google twice, second time with site:news.ycombinator.com added.) So upvoting probably makes sense. That said, I also read a lot of posts ‘later’, but often forget to upvote. (Unless I return to read comments—Readability doesn't work for HN comment threads, unfortunately. Partly I blame page markup for that.)