Comment by swores
6 days ago
Yeah, I've wondered about that before, but since it seems to more often than not be helpful I figured that even if the motivation was something lame like karma farming it does no harm.
I was just surprised this time since it seemed too pointless for human judgement to have been involved, yet too slow (4 hours later than my noticing it and searching for the thread I remembered seeing days before) to be a bot...
The only thing surprising is repeat-offender OP's low-quality submission and all of the repeat discussion of a large topic from less than a week ago. Keep putting the duplicate discussions up, keep finding us highlighting the previous discussion.
Sorry for doubting you! I had thought it possible someone had set up a dupe-commenting bot (and like I said before, I didn't object if that was what you'd done), and was too lazy to look into whether you were a real person or only posted the dupe comments.
But speaking as a random HN reader, I appreciate comments pointing out previous discussions :) (Though I don't think it's always a negative to have a dupe on a different day)