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Gotta love it when content from 2020 on a claim like this ends up on front page.
As someone else commented in another link posted by this poster, the poster seems to be a repost bot posting every hour.
His profile clearly says he’s a guy though, it doesn’t say he’s a bot. /s
I am a guy plus it's a quote from a movie.
IMHO, this user should be banned from posting as it is a "repost robot".

As per HN guidelines, a submission is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", and I should add an "&&" operator with the following criteria "you should already read the article, or at least, visited the page you are about to submit and find it interesting".

Having the above said, I doubt a robot could do this even if it is "GATOed" or "GPT-{3,4..}ed"

Why did you find Twitter's CEO stepping down in 2015 interesting enough to repost? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688455

Also, when is the last time you slept?

I think that story is pretty relevant given the current Twitter situation with Elon Musk.

I don't believe it's against the HN rules to share an account.

Please see the HN guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

Ok, lets assume it is a real person regurgitating every old successful post. Does that make it better?
Many people submit things that have been on HN before and the guidelines are clear that reposts are allowed when older than a year. There have been a lot of stories that when resubmitted years later have very interesting discussions surrounding them because of the developments since they were submitted - the context is entirely different.
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I don’t mind that, but re-posting multiple things per day seems disingenuous?
You've posted with a remarkable consistency over the past few days. I went back to 150 submissions and collected the timestamps; the longest you've gone without posting is just shy of 67 minutes. I looked at the distribution of intervals between posts, in minutes, rounded to a single decimal place:

     44 30.0
     21 35.0
     20 35.1
     14 29.9
      7 65.0
      7 60.0
      6 34.9
      3 40.0
      3 30.1
      2 60.1
      2 28.2
      1 66.8
      1 65.1
      1 61.8
      1 55.1
      ... this is the top 15
You're highly likely to submit a link every 30 minutes, and if not that, then every 35 minutes. You're practically like clockwork, over 50% of your submissions happen with an interval like this.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12cHy0E6RI0XZ3f14UzzC...

Data collected using JS on HN submission pages:

    [...document.querySelectorAll('.age')].map(x => x.attributes.title.value)
We are supposed to review metrics on this PC for our mobile app every 30 minutes. It's a very tireless duty that we share. In the past we had automated alerts setup for this, but they failed and it lost the company a fair bit, so now we have a share task =(
original author here, if you have any question let me know

(no i’m not the bot author)

Did you ever get a resolution. I saw the update that you got featured on HN the first time, but I never saw an update on if FB still tried to scrape your site.
They make a bunch of requests (< 100) per day on average. Sometimes they don't come for 24 hours some day only 5 requests, some day 200...
not thanks to fb, however. the bot probably got tired :P

Somebody from fb tried to get in touch in 2020, but I didn't want to share more details with them (they probably already have much data about me already :P )

I assume there is some script to post submissions since you've posted every hour in the past 24 hours? Not sure if that is against HN guidelines.

The more curious thing is what's the motivation for this effort to spam reposts? Is it just for Karma? It can't be for thoughtful discussion since no one is interested in so many topics to be reposting every hour.

I don't see this in OP's submission history, nor in past submissions for this domain, nor in napolux' submission history. The only time it was posted previously was in 2020, exactly one year ago, and got a thousand points then. No idea where to find what you're talking about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ddtaylor / https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=napolux.com / https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=napolux

Edit: ah wait, it's not about this specific submission being repeated somewhere, it's that ddtaylor posts to HN previously-popular submissions every hour.

What is "here" (like what kind of company shares social media accounts other than troll farms?) and how come one of these people decide to post something previously-popular every hour? Do they genuinely find those threads interesting and worth repeating, but never does anyone see something interesting more or less often than once an hour?
What did I insinuate? All I said are the two questions below:

1.) Are you using a script?

2.) What's the motivation?

For number 1, you replied that it is shared account, okay. For number two, what's the motivation? No answer.

What do you mean motivation?
Assuming there is no script, it seems quite odd for an account to be posting every hour. It's just not normal behaviour. In Reddit, this would be classified as a bot for karma-farming.

Not only myself, but a lot of people find it strange for people to invest their energy and time and attention to be using a shared account to be reposting stuff hourly if not for karma-farming. And it seems to be doing this straight for days at a time, just based on the recent account history.

I don't think most are stuck with a mind-numbing job of logging into a stupid remote PC to track metrics. We look for any entertainment we can find and leave little notes and stuff for the next person.
Ok got it. But it's hard for me to imagine, people with so much consistency and who find posting on Hacker News to be entertaining.

If that was me, I'd probably do different things instead of finding entertainment in doing the same thing again and again every hour of posting on Hacker News.

I'm sure everyone has different things that entertain them. I play a game of minesweeper every time but I am terrible at it still.
> This account is shared by all the people who work here.

Who work where?

All of us that share this PC used for monitoring uptime/metrics of our app.
What/where/who are all the people who work here.

your profile states "I'm just some guy". so either you're very conflicted with multiple personalities when you discuss all of those people working "here", or something more sinister is afoot.

Too bad there's not another HN guideline that suggests not self-righteously posting about the guidelines

That's a quote from a movie.
That's not an answer to any of the questions he asked.

Why are you so evasive?

Just answer the questions.

This is becoming a distraction and we're getting lots of complaints about it. Many users have been emailing us (in keeping with the site guidelines).

I need to ask you to stop doing this, because (1) this posting pattern is not consistent with intellectual curiosity; (2) accounts should not be shared by more than one person; (3) I have to say, that story doesn't seem entirely plausible to me.

Forgive me if I'm misjudging this, but our experience with this usage pattern is that it tends to be associated with various kinds of scheme, ranging from relatively innocent to bannably abusive, so my pattern matcher is going 'I don't really buy that'. However, if your account really is just being shared by a group of people who all do a mindless job that runs 24 hours a day, all of whom are finding old successful HN threads to repost as a way to fulfill some mechanical job requirement, I still need to ask you to stop, because that's not in the spirit of the site. No repetitive-predictable pattern is.

You're a good user otherwise, but please stop.

> "[...] SEO experiments [...] website is so little [...] but can generate thousands of different pages [...] 7 million requests per day [...]"

So the experiment was "successful"?

yep, I can say it's successful. :)
Given the content of the story it would make sense if it was a trial to see what times of day the link gets followed. Maybe the discussion is irrelevant?
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