I notice that both of your comments in this thread are currently at 1 point. Have you been downvoted "just because you disagree", or is this more of a hypothetical grievance?

My statement giving the previous submissions got downvoted, then someone upvoted it again. Similarly, as I reply to you your comment is on 0, and I'm about to upvote it back to 1, because even though this discussion adds nothing significant to HN, neither (I believe) does it subtract significantly.

The issue of re-submissions comes up repeatedly. I flag them in part because I'm working (in a desultory fashion) on something I think will improve the situation and commenting on the duplications makes them easier for me to find later for my experiments, in part because sometimes the earlier submissions had useful commentary that's worth reading rather than repeating, and in part because it raises awareness of the problem.

Here's one suggestion I made for at least identifying some duplications: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215

Like you, I believe that some things are worth seeing again, but as such I think it would be better to have a library of well-regarded and well-respected articles for people to browse. To me, they don't really belong on HN, and I, personally, would like to see the problem/situation dealt with cleanly as an issue of "separation of concerns."

But I'm probably in a minority of 1, so I trundle away in the darkness. At least it keeps me busy.

Well, that sounds a lot more reasonable than I initially assumed. Thanks for taking the time to explain.