I asked why it's popping up over and over again in new today. I wouldn't have commented otherwise.

dang 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Reposts are allowed through after 8 hours if a story hasn't had significant attention yet. After that, we treat reposts as dupes for a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

This is on purpose, because we want good stories to get multiple chances at getting noticed. Otherwise there's too much randomness in what gets traction.

Plenty of past explanations here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

	▲	BoredPositron 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		look at the timelines again... https://hn.algolia.com/?q=research+goblin The 8 hours seem not to count if you submit under a different domain or do they reset after each try? Would also be great if you would answer emails especially if they are related to GDPR. You have two of them in your inbox from over 6 months ago send from the email in my account.

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TiredOfLife 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News : "Hacker News (HN) is a social news website"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_news_website : "A social news website is a website that features user-posted stories. Such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators."

The article was recently published, users on HN submitted the article. Other users thought it interesting and upvoted. Earth has different time zones (I understand it's difficult for americans to grasp) and so different people are active at different times.

	▲	typpilol 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's 8 hours from time of post no? So timezones don't really affect anything here or am I missing something?
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