It would help if you gave examples of the links you were trying to repost. If you looked under "saved stories" in your profile, you'll find the stuff you submit

It would help if you gave examples of the links you were trying to repost. If you looked under "saved stories" in your profile, you'll find the stuff you submitted as new but instead up-voted since it was previously posted. BTW, only you can access your own "saved-stories" link or I would have looked up the submitted urls and discussions myself. Yes, both would be helpful. In general, if something was submitted, well up-voted, and discussed, then it's pretty much done since there's really no sense in reopening the topic again. You're better off (and hn is better off) if you go find something new to submit. When you find something that you think might be new and good for hn, then check to make sure it hasn't already been posted by using Algolia (HN Search on the bottom of all pages). For example, I was considering posting something about "numenta.org" since to me it's really interesting. I did a search on Algolia, and it seems it's already been done to death on HN, so I didn't post it. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/numenta https://hn.algolia.com/?q=#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/num... If there's a new development in something that had been posted and discussed before, I'll often put a link to the previous discussion as a regular comment on the new story, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644448 There is always new and interesting stuff out there, so there's seldom any reason to repost old stuff that's already been done and discussed. I actually have a text file with a backlog of stuff I've found that might interest others on HN, but I should not post all of it as soon as I find it. I want to avoid filling up the /newest queue and avoid having the main /news page filled up with stuff that I think is interesting so I wait to post more stuff until the stuff I've already posted has made it's merry way along. At times, it might take a day or so for something popular to drop of the main /news page, but this gives everyone else a better chance of seeing the stuff that they find interesting to get discussed. I can't speak to the question of "official repost policy" but when there's so much new and interesting stuff out there waiting to be found and submitted, your time is better spent finding and sharing it.