When Sun Microsystems tried to sell Brendan Gregg his own DTrace Tools (brendangregg.com)

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I've been observing a lot of repeated submissions lately (repetitions of things which were already on the front page several days earlier). When I point them out in the comments, nothing happens to the submission. It's a bit boring. The FAQ discourages reposts. Has something changed in this regard?