Comment by dang
17 days ago
(We re-upped this post because it hadn't made the frontpage despite lots of upvotes - which happens sometimes.
This explains why some of the comments have timestamps that appear older than the post itself. I got tired of trying to make them line up, sorry!)
> I got tired of trying to make them line up, sorry!
IMHO, it's less disorienting to have the post dated after the comments than it is to see a comment you thought you wrote a couple days ago but is dated today. So you're welcome to stop trying to line up timestamps.
The problem is that it leads to endless confusion that ends up taking over threads. We tried it!
Status quo sucks also, it just sucks less. Haven't yet figured out an actually good solution. Sorry!
How about recording two dates on the post, the original post date and the re-upped date, and then putting something like "14 hours ago; originally 2 days ago" in the post header?
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Agreed, although perhaps not as strongly; I remember seeing these comments from a few days ago, so I was feeling a little gaslit seeing the new timestamps and wondered if I'd hallucinated the original thread.
What happens sometimes, artifical uplifting of posts, posts with high vote count that don't reach the frontpage, or both?
I meant the latter, but both!
Re artificial uplifting a.k.a. re-upping, see https://news.ycombinator.com/pool