We don't approve of digging up comments from old threads and weaponizing them in the present thread. However, your activity in this thread is not consistent HN's guidelines and intended use.
The most important and pertinent guidelines in this case are these ones:
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer...
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Please don't trawl through past threads for material to use in the current discussion. It breaks the guidelines about being kind, avoiding cross-examination, and using HN for political or ideological battle. A discussion thread should be able to stand on its own, and it's hard to know whether the surrounding context that applied when the commenter expressed their views in an older thread are relevant to the current topic.
This seems like a grand proclamation rather than a curious conversation-starter about the specific case the article is about. The guidelines have different ways of asking us to avoid this kind of comment.
Please don't fulminate...
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
It would make all the difference if the comment included some commentary on why Antitrust law is inadequate in this case and how RICO would be likely to enable a better outcome.
My bad, sorry. I was under the impression that the way that the second chance pool worked was that the original was boosted instead of a copy being created so it seemed like a duplicate.
(other mod here) - not your bad! our complexity :) - usually it works exactly as you described, but when the post is older than a few days we have to do it the other way, by spawning a new post. The reasons for this are mostly technical and boring.
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