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Comment by Starlevel004 | Hacker News Reader

Am I going insane? I've seen this posted before in the last week and some of the comments here are identical to the comments from last time.

In fact algolia search shows this was first posted 3 days ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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Clicking the link to the comments on that post takes you to this comment section, so I think there's some by-hand deduping/merging going on

Dang has been resurfacing threads that got limited engagement, but that either have a second posting that's doing better or that he simply manually resets the timer on. The process by which he does this also resets the time on comments, too, for some reason; I don't really know except that I've noticed it happen to threads I had open or threads I had commented on.

You mean /invited

https://news.ycombinator.com/invited

Invited: Overlooked links, invited to repost

I read this exact reply N days ago... okay exact is stretching it but you get the point ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683174

Yeah, the reply about the garbage lorry is word for word, isn't it? Did this get a second chance and it moved all the other comments with it, or...?

>Did this get a second chance and it moved all the other comments with it, or...?

Probably. When that happens the comments don't get moved, their timestamps get adjusted to match the repost timestamp.

Meta but that seems like a pretty dishonest and confusing system.

Don't get your knickers in a twist.

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