[adregan]

OP posted despite the opening paragraph!

> Update on October 6, 2017. N.B.: Please stop submitting this to Hacker News! Look at the Hacker News search results for this essay. Check out the note for the first entry: Come on, everyone! Let's beat the dead horse one more time!

Past discussions https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Lisp%20Curse&type=story&...

[badsectoracula]

AFAIK it is common to repost a story here if there has been enough time since the last post since there can be new voices, opinions, etc since the last time it was posted. Dang sometimes posts a comment with links to previous discussions too.

Perhaps the author is confusing the norms with Reddit where in many subreddits reposts are often frowned upon.

[cogman10]

So long as the year is clearly stated, I do think reposts are a bad idea on HN.

There have been plenty of old articles that I've seen for the first time in a repost.

[lisper]

Maybe it's time for a permanent "HN Greatest Hits" page.

[iamwil]

Dunno, I've been on HN since 2007 and this is the first time I've seen this story.

[vaylian]

Yes. XKCD 1053 applies here. And this is evergreen content.

I wonder why the author is upset about the posts. Does it generate too much costly traffic? Do they receive a lot of e-mail because of their essay?

[usefulcat]

shrug. The way things work is people upvote things because they find them interesting. If enough people hadn't upvoted it, it would never have showed up on the front page, and most people probably wouldn't have seen it. Anyway, I'm not sure why they care that it gets resubmitted..

[coldtea]

That's a plea from 5 years ago.

People resubmit stories all the time, new and better (or different) discussions form around each resubmission, and new people get to read it.