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Comment by ronilan | Hacker News Reader

They didn’t promote it. They submitted it. The promotion happened with the upvotes. That being said, if it is such a pain that something that was submitted before was submitted again, I can provide help balancing the universe by not submitting something that was never submitted before. Let me know if that helps.

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Honestly it would help me if people just posted the link themselves if they found it interesting. Whenever I do it it's frowned upon for 'self promotion' even though people find it very interesting and useful. Maybe that's the play!

The repost rule doesn't care who posts it.

If I read the rules and ctrl+f for repost I only find: 'Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.'

Which rule are you referencing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> 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 had forgotten that was on the FAQ page or I'd have referenced it explicitly - it's a bit weird it's in there)

The link directly to my Github repo received attention, but a post that is to the live instance has yet to receive any significant attention. The two things are separate, one is a source code that hypothetically does something, the other is a legitimate file-hosting platform.

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