PG commented on it forever ago. The thinking (if I can speculate) probably is that if an item was submitted that didn't make it to the homepage, but it gets re

PG commented on it forever ago. The thinking (if I can speculate) probably is that if an item was submitted that didn't make it to the homepage, but it gets resubmitted a year later and does make it, it's worth everyone seeing it again. Or, it could just be too annoying for the less-than-part-time maintainers of HN to keep the blacklist past 10,000 items or something. Speculate on. :)