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Comment by krunck | Hacker News Reader

This has only been posted fourteen times before. Eight of those were by the current OP, "tomte". Whats up with that, Tomte?

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It got no traction any of the previous times, though, and has been posted approximately twice yearly, which isn't that excessive. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story

Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

> Interestingly it looks like it this made it to the front page via the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Why are almost all the submissions on /pool by the same accounts (I see ~4 Tomte)? Are they the ones curating the pool?

I dunno anything about the user but they sumbit lots of stories every day. Just a wild-ass guess: there's a script underlying the submissions, which works from a finite pool of Tomte-curated links.

It is curious. They seem to repeatedly submit old stories over and over. Some other examples:

20 CDs curated by Steve Jobs & the iPod team - submitted 20 times over 7 years:

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

Prefix for SQLite Tmpfiles - submitted 10 times over 7 years

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

The submissions do seem to be good though. Perhaps they just re-read old articles occasionally and re-submit them.

I've got a few links that I resubmit periodically to HN.

I do that because they've never gained traction and I would like to see discussion about them.

I visit HN daily more times I'd like to admit and I hadn't seen it before.

If OP gets some karma every time he posts it, like he did from me this time, what's wrong with that?

They are quite the prolific poster - enough to not have the value shown in the HN leaderboard [1] O.o

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

The article is also old with outdated information

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