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This link has now been reposted 6 times in the past two weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22816645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801191

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784712

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22720028

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22806810

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That's an indicator of interest. I actually emailed one of the submitters to repost the article for that reason. (Yes, we're thinking about software to detect cases like this.)

On HN, a submission doesn't count as a dupe unless it has had significant attention. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Fair enough, only reason I noticed is because I was actually going to post this link yesterday but did a search to make sure sure I wasn't reposting.

Plus they didn't get much traction anyway, so I wrongly assumed there wasn't interest.

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So? Guidelines don't explicitly say this behavior is unallowed. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sometimes posts that deserve to be on the front page don't make it. Seems fine to repost periodically as long as you aren't spamming many times per day.

None of them garnered any traction/comments, in case others were looking for that.

And yet it has only reached the front page once. Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. That is how online voting/aggregation systems work.

Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there.

This isn't true at all, for the record.

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