Please however consider that tuning the system for this one time annoying doppelgagnger could have a global nefarious impact upon more modest stories.

If because someone posted on a weird timewindow the article never make it to the front page it's fair to allow those article another go.

An ill intentioned actor also could use this as an adversial strategy. For instance by self publishing bad buzz stories at the worst possible timing to ensure it won't make it to front page and could then exploit the de-duplicating algorithm to reject the story if it get publish again on a more favorable timeframe.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea per se, but it should be extremely carefully though out. And I'm not sure it's more efficient that the organic downvote of called out duplicate by the human readers.

PS: Quite ironically by engaging discussion here instead of simply calling out the dupe we are actually boosting this story...

Most of those probably didn't get enough points to hit the front page. This is the first time I've seen the article, so I'm happy it was let through.

That's the point of limiting reposts. To reduce the resubmissions in case you get lucky to get into the front page. Everyone gets the same chances with time limited single shot. Otherwise, spamming will take over.

They seem to be trying to keep anything critical of Elon off the front page.

I'm giving you an upvote for visibility but I don't think it's a conspiracy just tribalism causing people to protect their "side".

I was expecting Kayne West being banned again to be the top post.

Any evidence?

Not really. I just noticed that yesterday one of the top stories on HN was coinbase vs Apple. Yet earlier in the week there were hardly any stories of Elon vs Apple.

Obviously Elon declaring war on Apple was the much bigger story. People on twitter were ready to burn their iPhones in support. It even had politicians threatening to get congress to go after Apple on behalf of Elon.

I have to agree with this.

So much has been going with Twitter that it was odd that nothing appeared on HN.

I mean, I think it does have new relevance now, in that one of the stages has just symbolically been crossed (of course, there’ve already been lots of arbitrary bans apparently for making fun of Elon, so realistically twitter is not following the ordained path)