It seems that timing is everything. BTW, I find "Dup" comments valuable when the original had commentary we would otherwise miss or when the original was deleted by mods. This appears to be the case with your second link, so thank you.
However, if the original failed to get votes and is reposted later, I'm personally all for it. HN's algorithm is rather capricious, trying again may garner interest, and that's a good thing for HN.
I agree entirely. Ideally there would be a way of simply merging items to get all the references to the same story from different sources, and combine the comment threads.
But that won't happen any time soon. Cross-referencing is the best we can manage for now.
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It seems that timing is everything. BTW, I find "Dup" comments valuable when the original had commentary we would otherwise miss or when the original was deleted by mods. This appears to be the case with your second link, so thank you.
However, if the original failed to get votes and is reposted later, I'm personally all for it. HN's algorithm is rather capricious, trying again may garner interest, and that's a good thing for HN.
Example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803432 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1801632
I agree entirely. Ideally there would be a way of simply merging items to get all the references to the same story from different sources, and combine the comment threads.
But that won't happen any time soon. Cross-referencing is the best we can manage for now.