HN already prevent submitting the same link in a short time frame. Quite often, submissions can end up without activity and resubmitting helps more people contribute to the discussion.
Topics aren’t “finished” just because /some/ HNers discussed it one day.
Right but couldn't that type of system be roughly accomplished by looking up the canonical URL and/or title from the meta tag (from a scrape) and search against the last posts?
Having a stronger policy on repeated duplicate offenders should be a thing. It just farms points that can be later used in a bot farm.
Kind of interested (with no judgment implied), do you think Apple is paying people to make posts here (weirdly of stories talking about their failures) or are you using astroturfing to refer to Apple’s extremely successful work building public mindshare resulting in a fanbase that wants to constantly discuss their products (and a hate group that’s still obsessed with talking about them)?
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573667