It’s been 7mo and we’re not all here every day. It’s fine. I appreciate the post and discussion it sparked.

Why does it bother you?

Linking to past threads with comments (i.e. actual discussions) is a longstanding convention here. There's no implied criticism, as other users have already pointed out.

We do treat reposts as duplicates when a story has had significant attention in the last year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but that's a separate issue.

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teraflop 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why are you interpreting it as a complaint, or an expression of being bothered?

Occasional reposts are well within HN's norms, and when something is reposted, it's common to link to past discussions for comparison.

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kleiba 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you think it bothers me? I wrote the original comment because previous discussions might be interesting reads.

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alashow 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe prefixing with "Previous discussions" instead of "Posted here multiple times before" will not sound like complaining

	▲	dang 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's really hard to find a phrase for this that people don't interpret as a complaint or criticism. It took me years before I hit on "Related", which seems just neutral enough to mostly avoid that misunderstanding (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
	▲	falseprofit 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The phrasing was matter of fact. And there is nothing inherently wrong with reposting. Certain other websites have developed a culture opposed to it, but I have yet to see that here.
	▲	kleiba 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed, I actually tried and go back to change the wording to exactly that, but unfortunately it was already past the editing grace period. But lesson learned for next time.