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It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Ple

It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774

tlrobinson 14y ago
Interesting, all of these have identical links. Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.
- telemachos 14y ago
  > Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once. I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of time, you can repost things with exactly the same link and title. And I believe that it's deliberate (the posts are likely to be new to many people since the population turns over to some degree after x amount of time).
  - 8ig8 14y ago
    Is this true? It sounds like an opportunity for karma bots to re-post popular posts from the past.
  - cawel 14y ago
    And that time period might be at most a month, considering the last post with the exact same link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 ) predates the current post by 31 days.
NathanKP 14y ago
For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen the item yet, or old members who were "in the zone" coding instead of wasting time browsing HN on the day the item was last posted.
shintoist 14y ago
Even if it were reposted within a month, a considerable number of people would have never seen it before. It's just the nature of these boards. Just rely on the upvoting system. If people think it is relevant, they upvote. This means things will only show up on the front page if enough people are interested (ie it has been long enough since it was last posted).
Udo 14y ago
This is very meta, but what I find infinitely more annoying is this trend of people who love to repost their own comments 10 times in 10 different threads loosely related to the same issue. We should start punishing instead of rewarding that. I'm looking at you, tokenadult. At least with link repetition I can quickly see whether I already read this and decide to ignore it. But re-posting an old, cancerously-grown comment with a new first paragraph is just mean and lazy.
bugBunny 14y ago
well, sorry. It was shocking good and never seen b4 for me. But, it's so good that I would like to read it again in a year or so :)
- monochromatic 14y ago
  ... what?
  - bugBunny 14y ago
    ?
8ig8 14y ago
Is the duplicate posting issue relevant if the post is receiving up votes?

tlrobinson 14y ago

Interesting, all of these have identical links. Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.

telemachos 14y ago
> Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once. I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of time, you can repost things with exactly the same link and title. And I believe that it's deliberate (the posts are likely to be new to many people since the population turns over to some degree after x amount of time).
- 8ig8 14y ago
  Is this true? It sounds like an opportunity for karma bots to re-post popular posts from the past.
- cawel 14y ago
  And that time period might be at most a month, considering the last post with the exact same link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 ) predates the current post by 31 days.

NathanKP 14y ago

For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen the item yet, or old members who were "in the zone" coding instead of wasting time browsing HN on the day the item was last posted.

shintoist 14y ago

Even if it were reposted within a month, a considerable number of people would have never seen it before. It's just the nature of these boards. Just rely on the upvoting system. If people think it is relevant, they upvote. This means things will only show up on the front page if enough people are interested (ie it has been long enough since it was last posted).

Udo 14y ago

This is very meta, but what I find infinitely more annoying is this trend of people who love to repost their own comments 10 times in 10 different threads loosely related to the same issue. We should start punishing instead of rewarding that. I'm looking at you, tokenadult. At least with link repetition I can quickly see whether I already read this and decide to ignore it. But re-posting an old, cancerously-grown comment with a new first paragraph is just mean and lazy.

bugBunny 14y ago

well, sorry. It was shocking good and never seen b4 for me. But, it's so good that I would like to read it again in a year or so :)

monochromatic 14y ago
... what?
- bugBunny 14y ago
  ?

8ig8 14y ago

Is the duplicate posting issue relevant if the post is receiving up votes?