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0 pointsdetaro2y ago0 comments

the HN mods "re-upped" this submission, which works by pretending that it was submitted later (and hence the ranking calculation treats it as new etc). It also fudges how the timestamps appear on the page. (presumably because otherwise people would be confused why a post from an hour ago has comments made 4 days ago)

On the user pages this doesn't happen and it shows the original time.

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TacticalCoder2y ago· 2 in thread

> It also fudges how the timestamps appear on the page.

Oh that's interesting, thanks for the explanation! (and a bit weird too but not in a bad way)

neilv2y ago

Altering public timestamps, with the effect of claiming that a particular person said a particular thing on a different day than you know they actually did, is potentially very bad.

bmacho2y ago

It is very bad, period. I love HN but I am seriously considering to not ever come here because of this. Please PG, can you not claim publicly that I say things at a given time, if I don't do that?

fathyb2y ago

In case someone would like to know more, it's called the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

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