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Good to link to the prior discussion, but that item is no longer open for discussion, so it's not inappropriate to re-post if an interesting discussion is to co
by jpwagner 17y ago
Good to link to the prior discussion, but that item is no longer open for discussion, so it's not inappropriate to re-post if an interesting discussion is to continue.
feature request: dupe only detected when discussion is still open.
- jacquesm 17y agoThe cutoff is only 45 days, we'd be literally flooded with dupes if that was done. I think this was one of PGs recent optimizations to keep HN responsive, it makes good sense to archive articles when they're no longer being updated.