HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion, in both submitted links and especially in comments (e.g., lots of "disclosure, I made X" or "shameless plug, I made X" or ...). It's not necessarily a bad thing since the community ultimately has control over what gets seen on top. And additionally sometimes you are your only advertiser.
(In this very comments page, people are talking about their own code they wrote with links to it, etc.)
> HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion...
Yes, but there are rules, and we all should play by the same rules. HNs rules state that if your story got significant attention recently (this story was 1st six months ago) it'll be killed as dupe. But the user has been sending it w/o stop even after that...
>Are reposts ok?
If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
I see. But for HN the dispositive time window is a year, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I don't know when pg came up with that but it was long before I started working on HN.
I have no earthly need for this whatsoever--is drag-and-drop ever needed for webapps?--but as an example of clever Javascript code, it's very cool. (Running Firefox beta on Android.)
Another way to look at it is a sign that HN doesn't always bubble quality to the top. HN might not actually care, casualties may be expected as the algorithm's goal is not "all quality rises" but rather "no cruft rises"
Which is fine, but a side effect is people resubmit often hoping one submission will catch.
(In this very comments page, people are talking about their own code they wrote with links to it, etc.)