Super offtopic, but I'm curious why y'all haven't taken the dev time to implement even primitive dupe detection/reposting/re-linking on HN.
Writing scripts to do repetitive human tasks is sort of hacker 101 isn't it?
Writing scripts to do repetitive human tasks is sort of hacker 101 isn't it?
Perhaps the HN software should turn the knob the other way, and automatically repost old links which got a lot of attention previous times.
(I often link to earlier discussions from comments in the threads, but that is purely to satisfy the curiosity of those curious to look at them.)
I assumed there was no automated dupe linking because I regularly see comment posts with links to earlier discussions. Always struck me as the kind of thing a computer should be doing.
I always kinda liked it, to be honest.