The point is not in giving credit, but in taking credit away. All these boards are based on luck. Trying to argue agains why one got up and the other didn’t isn’t constructive. It’s verging on toxic imho
Well except the point is to give credit where it's due.
I read the parent comment in the way of giving credit to the original creator of the content - as far as we know OP could have copied everything (which apparently he did, from images to the css).
In my opinion, the bare minimum he could have done was to credit who he copied it from, since he didn't even bother to take the printscreens for the images himself.
Imagine you're going around downloading projects that didn't get traction on HNs, just change the api, and by chance you got more votes, so it's all good? That's just messed up.
True, and I’m not arguing that this person deserves more (or any) credit than the other, my gripe is with calling for moderation straight up as if he’s almost calling the police. I should’ve made it clear that that is the dickish part imho
I wasn’t calling for moderation. I was suggesting that it would be good to repost the other HN article too. Reposting another article to give it another opportunity to be seen has no impact on this one.
This is an additive action. This is not moderation.
There is a standard HN practice of sometimes reposting articles that didn’t get much traction the first time around. Given that this article that we’re commenting on right now reached the top of HN’s home page but the original (barely credited) work garnered only a handful of comments, I thought it might be worth the original being reposted.
You’ve thrown around some name calling and brought up the word “toxic” here. I won’t respond in kind other than to say I find these comments a little ironic.
Mentioning a moderator is a calling for moderation action. If you just wanted it reposted you could’ve just repost yourself. That would’ve been the actual “additive action”.
I’m aware of the practice. Copycats will copy. You could’ve reposted but you chose to call the cops.
The OP plagiarised this site, posted this on Show HN as "I built [this site]", and wrote a blog post about how he "built" it, with no mention of the original which he cut-and-pasted almost verbatim.
It's fair that HN give u/pieterhg the credit that was stolen from him here, at the very least. (I personally would remove this post altogether, given it violates copyright.)
How someone can get up in arms about your extremely minimal request, rather than what the OP did, is ... well, I sometimes don't know how on earth people think the things they do. 'Calling the cops', my God.
I read the parent comment in the way of giving credit to the original creator of the content - as far as we know OP could have copied everything (which apparently he did, from images to the css).
In my opinion, the bare minimum he could have done was to credit who he copied it from, since he didn't even bother to take the printscreens for the images himself.
Imagine you're going around downloading projects that didn't get traction on HNs, just change the api, and by chance you got more votes, so it's all good? That's just messed up.