have you considered some kind of presubmission check for this? even just to inform users without actually screening, and then auto appending previous discussions if submitted?
That would probably be helpful for informational use, but it seems to me like it would be frustrating to dump new comments into an old discussion. Maybe just a way to add a link to reference the prior discussion(s) like helpful people often do?
If you auto merged the comments from the last time, in theory they would quickly fall to the bottom because their time based value would be so much lower than the new stuff.
Maybe also disable replies to old comments and make them a different color?
To be fair, we could never figure out how to get this right on reddit either, but HN has a better comment sorting algorithm than reddit so it might actually work here.
i take it by your edit you are concerned i was interpreting your "past posts" as some implication the OP should not have submitted - this is not the case.
honestly, i just feel bad for you. what appears to me to be a repetitive google + copy + paste on your part is anathema to me, and i was trying to help stamp out such work.
i think this has value, but im worried the amount of work involved
grows (at a minimum) greater-than-linearly as HN grows.
Well there’s the “past” button but you still have to click first. Maybe the “past” button could also list the number of previous submissions and the max number of comments of any submission (and/or max score)?
have you considered some kind of presubmission check for this? even just to inform users without actually screening, and then auto appending previous discussions if submitted?
That would probably be helpful for informational use, but it seems to me like it would be frustrating to dump new comments into an old discussion. Maybe just a way to add a link to reference the prior discussion(s) like helpful people often do?
Yes but it's not clear how to get it right.
If you auto merged the comments from the last time, in theory they would quickly fall to the bottom because their time based value would be so much lower than the new stuff.
Maybe also disable replies to old comments and make them a different color?
To be fair, we could never figure out how to get this right on reddit either, but HN has a better comment sorting algorithm than reddit so it might actually work here.
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i take it by your edit you are concerned i was interpreting your "past posts" as some implication the OP should not have submitted - this is not the case.
honestly, i just feel bad for you. what appears to me to be a repetitive google + copy + paste on your part is anathema to me, and i was trying to help stamp out such work.
i think this has value, but im worried the amount of work involved grows (at a minimum) greater-than-linearly as HN grows.
A guy on Imgur made a bot named [1] "RepostStatistics" that would comment the last time a photo was posted, something similar might work
[1] https://imgur.com/user/RepostStatistics
Well there’s the “past” button but you still have to click first. Maybe the “past” button could also list the number of previous submissions and the max number of comments of any submission (and/or max score)?