please don't point out empty discussions without upvotes as duplicates, unless there are tons of those recently. Reposts are explicitly allowed on HN under these circumstances.
I don't see how that makes the reference more useful. (I see two purposes for linking to other submissions: point out duplicates that mean the current discussion should be marked dupe (post the link and flag = [dupe] if it's the first comment, otherwise mods add it later), or point other commenters to old but maybe still interesting discussions. Neither case applies when pointing to empty discussions)
please don't point out empty discussions without upvotes as duplicates, unless there are tons of those recently. Reposts are explicitly allowed on HN under these circumstances.
At the time that I wrote that this was an empty discussion too. You should bear in mind when things are written.
I don't see how that makes the reference more useful. (I see two purposes for linking to other submissions: point out duplicates that mean the current discussion should be marked dupe (post the link and flag = [dupe] if it's the first comment, otherwise mods add it later), or point other commenters to old but maybe still interesting discussions. Neither case applies when pointing to empty discussions)