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Some of the many previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28168632

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578581

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21974942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19006036

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15752725

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8697028

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3036124

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809493

These are not links to the discussion of the same page, but links to threads discussing various blog posts, wiki pages, etc. on the same site. It's the same thing anyone could see by clicking the domain name by the title, except without titles.

They aren't all on the same site (not that it matters), they all have significant threads and they are all about Fossil SCM, which is how 'relatedness' works on HN - by value and not by reference. If you can think of some other ones that are not on their site, you should definitely add them.

Spamming the first fifteen links from the search results for "Fossil SCM" is of no more value. This is not "how 'relatedness' works on HN", this is just clutter.

There are a lot of HN community practices I don't like so I feel your pain. For this particular trauma, though, there's a little [-] clutter-be-gone link at the end of the comment header you can use to collapse the whole thing out of the way.

It's not a community practice when it's only you doing it this way.

It would be good to see titles for links above. What's your point of listing them without titles?

It's a community effort. One person posts the links, then you come along and help out by posting the titles, then I help out by telling you what to do. Go team!

Unacceptable Ted, do all the work

Like the other reply points out, it's fairly standard community practice to link previous discussions for those who might be interested in checking them out. dang (the public moderator) has automated up his postings of past links so they show titles and dates but that's work and I wasn't going to do it by hand for this chonklist. The good news is, eventually, the tectonic plate of HN development will reach 'make the fancier formatting automatic for everyone':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27236708

The reply I really wanted to write was 'the point is to confuse passers by', though.

Might as well just link to HN search, there you can see the titles, urls, dates, comment- and point-counter.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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