Are you suggesting that they're suggesting anything beyond what date this was written on, since we usually point that out in almost every article that has not been written in the current year for a variety of reason, including "oh, yeah, I remember I already read this without even clicking, it's not new, I might as well go read the comments directly"?

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jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I'm not, hence the question.

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klez 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My apologies, I assumed that since you've been a user for a while you were aware of the reason for such a comment and the practice of indicating the post year in the submission titles.

No hard feelings, I hope.

	▲	jacquesm 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		'For a while' indeed :)

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defrost 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Adding a date for older articles and posts is a very common HN convention

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896376

ideally it should be in the submitted title, if not often someone will post it as above .. and later a mod might add it.

No biggie, as they say.

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jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course I was completely unaware of that...

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defrost 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, TBH, I figured you knew ... I'm juggling a few things and probably put this general note in where it wasn't needed. Pax.

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jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

NP, I considered adding it but then again, I know HN tends to interpret that as 'old news' and in this case it is anything but. The rules are there for a reason, even so these are strange times and I figure the more people are aware of this the better.

I could have updated the post date but I would have considered that cheating so I purposefully posted it as it was but left out the date.

But don't worry, it'll get flagged off the homepage soon enough because way too many people find this sort of thing uncomfortable.

	▲	selfhoster11 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		FWIW, you aren't alone man. Stay strong.
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