Leap

I don't know why but reposting seems to happen a lot on HackerNews. It's not the fact that they get reposted that's bugging me but the fact that the same people upvote them. Why would you still upvote something if you know you've seen it before on HN? It eludes me.

Re: Leap

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Post by jurre » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:21 AM UTC

vesky wrote: post #4

kleiba wrote: post #2

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4004420

I don't know why but reposting seems to happen a lot on HackerNews. It's not the fact that they get reposted that's bugging me but the fact that the same people upvote them. Why would you still upvote something if you know you've seen it before on HN? It eludes me.

Probably because they haven't seen it before. This is the first time I've see this posted.

Re: Leap

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Post by kleiba » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:27 AM UTC

jurre wrote: post #5

vesky wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why but reposting seems to happen a lot on HackerNews. It's not the fact that they get reposted that's bugging me but the fact that the same people upvote them. Why would you still upvote something if you know you've seen it before on HN? It eludes me.

Probably because they haven't seen it before. This is the first time I've see this posted.

I wouldn't really say that it bothers me. I posted the link to the above discussion because I think if someone comes to the comment section they might be interested in it.

But it certainly wouldn't hurt to do a quick HN search before posting a new submission.

Re: Leap

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Post by ricardobeat » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:29 AM UTC

Hmm. I feel like I'm in that other news site with all the reposts.

Re: Leap

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Post by ricardobeat » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:31 AM UTC

vesky wrote: post #4

kleiba wrote: post #2

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4004420

I don't know why but reposting seems to happen a lot on HackerNews. It's not the fact that they get reposted that's bugging me but the fact that the same people upvote them. Why would you still upvote something if you know you've seen it before on HN? It eludes me.

This one only went through because it's missing the www, so it didn't trigger the repost blocker. Maybe that should be taken into account?

Re: Leap

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Post by StavrosK » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:58 AM UTC

Whenever I see something like this, I immediately think of gorilla arm syndrome. There's a reason I was saying they will never become widespread when all my friends were screaming about Minority Report-style interfaces (ever since Minority Report).

Re: Leap

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Post by tomelders » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:59 AM UTC

First time I've seen this. Obviously the first time a lot of other people have seen it too, hence it making it all the way to front page.

Anyhoot, I can't deny it, this is very interesting.