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>Yes. The former submission got enough attention, so it shouldn't be submitted for a year. If this is official policy, it's kind of laughable to single out 'Show HN' posts for this treatement, given how any major techie news story gets submitted over and over and over again for days on end. I've complained about this so many times in the past, to no avail. Anyone who uses the 'Newest' page as their HN landing page wi…
Most tech stories are submitted from different sources. Each time there is a big new, there are like 10 or 20 newspapers/blogs/tech-sites that write a coverage. The mods somehow try to keep only one, if they are too similar, but sometimes it's difficult. And in some cases each day there is a new part of the story that appears, and that sometimes make the new post interesting.
>Most tech stories are submitted from different sources. Each time there is a big new, there are like 10 or 20 newspapers/blogs/tech-sites that write a coverage.
I just find it really irritating. It's little different from spam, in my opinion and I wish people would have the courtesy towards other HN users to spend a few seconds checking if a story has already been submitted before mashing the Submit button themselves. In some cases people are still re-submitting major tech stories days after they happened.
A classic example was Musk's take over of Twitter. I remember there were 30+ submissions of that story alone, when I counted part way through the day it hppened and people were still submitting it a couple of days later. That's just downright spamming, in my book. Who the hell can frequent HN and think that, 3 days after the event, no-one will yet have shared with the rest of us the biggest tech news story of the year?
As I always say, when getting on my soapbox about this: Just try spending a few days using HN, with the 'Newest' section as your landing page and you'll soon see how much of a problem this is: