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Why do people post "news" from 4 years ago? News mostly isn't relevant a few weeks later; it would make sense if their was some follow up story or something about this. Even weirder is how people comment on this story like it just happened, did anyone actually check to see if this is still the case 4 years later?

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> Why do people post "news" from 4 years ago? News mostly isn't relevant a few weeks later

This is just a report on something they do, not a specific event or a revelation. It's not the kind of "news" that stops being relevant. It's equally relevant every year unless something changes.

I think it's historically interesting and people often miss stories from years ago.

There was a big Tesla quality and safety problems story yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610950

And there's one every week or two. The repetition kills interestingness

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31487646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31479840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31446523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31398021

I think a lot of people had a lot of interesting things to add in the comments section here overall.

You can look at any of these threads and it's basically the same stuff. It's not because it's not interesting but because it's pretty easy to exhaust most of the interesting things to say about the same topic.

Maybe there are a lot of people like me that never saw the article? Maybe that's part of the reason.

Just flag it. The meta inadvertently helps make it a worse thread on top of a bad post.

there are also those folks who don't know large pieces of current events and keep surfacing 10 year ago news as actual news (and treat it as occurring now).

popular to attack Tesla at the moment

It would be less popular it Tesla had leadership that lead by example instead of dictate and if they stopped making promises they can't execute on year after year.

that's not why a lot of the attacks on tesla are happening - the twitter acquisition and elon being political on twitter have opened him up to lots of people attacking his companies.

Things like this don't tend to change without force of law. Do you have proof that it has?

Tesla is very divisive, a lot of people get a sense of power and superiority by posting anything that makes them look bad. The subtext is "See? I'm smarter than you by hating Tesla."

This isn't exclusive to Tesla.

100%. Tesla hating brings out the crazy

Let me guess, you drive a Tesla.

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