PG, how about creating a 'hall of infamy and repetition' list for submissions that seem to find their way onto the site every so often? Once a link makes the list, all new submissions are redirected to a page listing the previous submissions w/ points/comments listed.
Some links like this and the comments that ensue are 'evergreen' material, but by continually being resubmitted at a later date the chance of conversation happening decreases and its time on the homepage shrinks while it creates a sort of broken window effect for those of us who haven't seen it for the first (or 6th) time.
[+] [-] RiderOfGiraffes|15 years ago|reply
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1730788
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1460895
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1222755
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1199117
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063198 <- This one, from 317 days ago, has comments.
[+] [-] abhijitr|15 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dolinsky|15 years ago|reply
Some links like this and the comments that ensue are 'evergreen' material, but by continually being resubmitted at a later date the chance of conversation happening decreases and its time on the homepage shrinks while it creates a sort of broken window effect for those of us who haven't seen it for the first (or 6th) time.
[+] [-] steveklabnik|15 years ago|reply
and the code:
https://github.com/nvie/gitflow