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Tell HN: You can upvote and save very old stories by resubmitting them.
What is interesting is that it appears to work for most stories regardless of the story's age and still gives karma to the original poster.
The oldest one I was able to upvote was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2 (changes pictured at http://i.imgur.com/ISDYNta.png) but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 didn't work (instead of upvoting the original it was submitted anew).
- mschuster91 12y agoYes indeed, but no amount of upvotes could bring any old post back to frontpage. Also, resubmitting even the oldest stories will give karma to the original poster...
- networked 12y ago>no amount of upvotes could bring any old post back to frontpage No practical amount, at least. I wouldn't be surprised if the weight function used to sort the stories had no hard cutoff based on time, so you could beat it in theory if not in practice if you upvoted an old story at a sufficient rate. You could call it "story escape velocity". Of course, for stories old enough the escape velocity may not be achievable due the limited bandwidth and other resources that HN has even if you had enough users trying to upvote it.
- kogir 12y agoYeah, this behavior isn't desirable. We'll probably fix it.