Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by tmp538394722 | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

tmp538394722·

I think they might be a bot or they have some system for reposting content.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20a%20Baker’s%20Dozen%20is...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Daily%20life%20in%20a%20federa...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=governmentisgood.com

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Trouble%20with%20Teachin...

View on HN

I asked the user about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26776960

Dang didn't seem to mind. <shrug>

I get the impression that some prolific users repeatedly post content that the site isn't very interested in until it finally takes the bait so as to earn magic internet points ('This account is valuable to HN!') as a cover for posting divisive content. There are also groups of accounts who appear to accomplish this by sharing reposting duties.

Tomte use to post a lot of good old stuff. I didn't notice s/he is reposting because the frequency is very low (6 months?) and not too many posts.

Also, it's generally interesting stuff, that raise the bar before I complain.

Edit: * and from a lot of different sources

Reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, as I explained before. Using a bot to submit would not be ok, but I don't think Tomte's doing that. As for "cover for posting divisive content" - if you think someone is abusing HN, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com (as the site guidelines ask), and please don't make insinuations about it in the threads (as the guidelines also ask). We need to deal with abuse on the basis of evidence, not insinuation, and certainly not imagination, which such perceptions often turn out to be.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com