I am wandering if someone else has this need as well. And what they did in this case.
> Are reposts ok?
> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
> Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges.
Also, the question is: Is it interesting to discuss it again? Has something important changed? Is the article so interesting?
When I find a repost with a good discussion, I sometimes put a link to the old discussion with a snippet of the most interesting comments. Sometimes the comments debunk or clarify an important point of the article.
If HN just redirected you to the old story, append ?resubmit=hn or something similar to the URL.
Obviously, you should only do this if the original story is old, maybe a year or more.
Ok I thought HN was smart enough to re-open comments or something for old stories.
Personally I don't like this workaround. Because we now have several threads for the same article. And tools like Hacker News Sidebar [0] don't work anymore.
But granted for my original question this is probably the way to go.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba...