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Comment by peshkira | Hacker News Reader

It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong.

cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774

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This is very meta, but what I find infinitely more annoying is this trend of people who love to repost their own comments 10 times in 10 different threads loosely related to the same issue. We should start punishing instead of rewarding that. I'm looking at you, tokenadult.

At least with link repetition I can quickly see whether I already read this and decide to ignore it. But re-posting an old, cancerously-grown comment with a new first paragraph is just mean and lazy.

For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen the item yet, or old members who were "in the zone" coding instead of wasting time browsing HN on the day the item was last posted.

Even if it were reposted within a month, a considerable number of people would have never seen it before. It's just the nature of these boards.

Just rely on the upvoting system. If people think it is relevant, they upvote. This means things will only show up on the front page if enough people are interested (ie it has been long enough since it was last posted).

well, sorry. It was shocking good and never seen b4 for me. But, it's so good that I would like to read it again in a year or so :)

... what?

Is the duplicate posting issue relevant if the post is receiving up votes?

Interesting, all of these have identical links. Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.

> Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.

I believe that's wrong. From what I've seen, I think that that time is also a factor. After some amount of time, you can repost things with exactly the same link and title. And I believe that it's deliberate (the posts are likely to be new to many people since the population turns over to some degree after x amount of time).

And that time period might be at most a month, considering the last post with the exact same link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774 ) predates the current post by 31 days.

Is this true? It sounds like an opportunity for karma bots to re-post popular posts from the past.

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