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Mods, how come my post was completely edited? :)

The is-foo-bar-yet.com -> NO/YES trope has been off topic on HN for years, mainly because such pages are unsubstantive but also because it's long been a cliché.

If we can find a more substantive page to link to on the same topic, we'll sometimes change the URL. Usually we post a comment explaining that we did so, but it depends who's on duty at the time.

I personally don't think is-foo-bar-yet.com has been played out, nor do I agree with editing cliche links like this. The link is more substantive than you let on.

This was the originally submitted link: http://isdebianreproducibleyet.com/

Indeed, which is a completely different "view" on things...

A moderator edited the URL from a page that says "NO" which links to this.

I'm aware of that. I was asking why that change was made.

From the guidelines:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

It is amusing (well, to me) to note that ^lamby here is Chris Lamb, a major contributor to the Debian Reproducible Builds project. If anyone has the social currency to publish a such a capslock "no" and still mean it in a purely informative and constructive way, he probably is towards the top of the list of folks so qualified.

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