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by ummmzokbro 487 days ago
Why do you continue to spam this? This is the 4th time you have posted this
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A small number of reposts is ok if an article hasn't had significant attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts.

The reason we have this rule is that the /newest page is a bit of a lottery, meaning good submissions often get overlooked, and we want to mitigate that randomness a bit.

Of course, this could cross into spamming, especially when an account is promoting the same thing/company/site, or handful thereof. But that's not the case here. azhenley is one of the best submitters on HN!

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=azhenley

Third time! It’s good. I like reading these kind of stories so I resubmit if they don't get attention.
If I submit something that's recently been submitted, HN just loads the prior submission. How do you avoid that?
Wait at least 24 hours and only if it didn’t get many votes.