Most pages on the internet are not a good fit for HN.

check all recent dead posts and vouch for them if they don't deserve to be dead?

To the extent it is important to someone they will do it. To the extent it is not, they won’t.

How does it work

I suspect using tools, heuristics, and intuitions developed through direct experience within exactly the circumstances of running HN.

> To the extent it is important to someone they will do it. To the extent it is not, they won’t

Who here knows that it's something you're supposed to do, if you are?

I imagine that each new submission is seen at most by a handful of people, by the way, on average probably too few to resuscitate a dead one.

And I hope we can get an actual answer to how does it work.

> Most pages on the internet are not a good fit for HN

Most pages on the internet are not submitted to HN

something you're supposed to do, if you are?

Nothing is preventing anyone who feels it is important from doing it to the degree they feel that importance.

And I hope we can get an actual answer to how does it work.

The way it is is probably the best approximation of how it is supposed to work.

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		To feel that it's important they'd need to be told that Hacker News expects them to do it (if it does) > The way it is is probably the best approximation of how it is supposed to work Sure