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I don't like that version of (1) because the comment threads will be separated and the statistics for the combined post will be split up, making the content less discoverable, and the mirror poster will get full credit, as though it were their own content.
And, yeah, for (2) I had previously thought about starting the new clock with the first zap that launched the post back into top status. That's not quite right, though, because if someone else zapped it a few minutes before me but not enough to cross that threshold they wouldn't get credit for being earlier and they should.
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For (2), if you zap an old post and it resurfaces to the top and gets more zaps, wouldn't you be rewarded for zapping it earlier than those others? It should be noted that with the proposed formula, post age doesn't matter at all, so old posts and new posts are on equal footing for
Hotdepending on how recently they were zapped and by how much.For (1), I feel like the juice is not worth the squeeze. Maybe a better way is to allow "mirror" posts. Like, say I want to tag an old post with ~econ. Instead of just adding the tag to the post, I create a mirror of the post in the ~econ territory. It's a new post, but it just links to the old post.