Comment by dang
17 days ago
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!
17 days ago
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?
You already get that, if you hover over the submission time (it'll show the original submission time - days ago, while displaying "1 hour ago")
It seems too easy to miss.
How about simply not tampering with the date on the post?
The most I imagine most folks saying is "Didn't I see this post on the front page days ago?". For many other discussion fora, it's not uncommon for posts to be at the top of the pile for many days... so a days-old post date should be nothing unusual.
That's exactly what we tried and didn't work. The amount of noise it generated was vastly greater than the noise the status quo generates, unsatisfactory though it is.