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>>bluu00+(OP)
Thanks dang!

You've helped keep HN readable, corrected countless title and link errors, and prevented heated discussions from devolving into fights.

I also am super thankful for your help getting my "Show HN" post to the front page.

We all appreciate you.

>>echelo+ce
What help is available to get show hn posts to the front page?

>>crispy+c61
Following their post history, it looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380.

>>foota+G71
Thanks for linking that. TIL: sorting rank is a function of timestamp and votes, so when the mods push a story back to the front page, instead of special-casing the behavior, they just (get a computer to) fabricate a submission timestamp that puts the story in appropriate place on the front page.

It's a clever hack, alright, but dang if I didn't start to think I was going crazy, because something felt off with timestamps and surely the mods wouldn't be silently messing with those...

>>TeMPOr+m72
It's not a great solution because it confuses the people who notice. The problem is that it's even more confusing if we re-up posts that say "3 days ago" or whatever onto the front page. Then the threads fill up with "why is this 3 days ago post on the front page"?

Another option would be to clone the old submission into a new one, but then we get more dupes. And I don't know of any viable fourth option.

>>dang+Vq3
Fourth option - don't show dates or timestamps at all. The age of the actual article is what matters, and people can find that out by actually reading the article.

Would that not be viable?