> I got tired of trying to make them line up, sorry!
IMHO, it's less disorienting to have the post dated after the comments than it is to see a comment you thought you wrote a couple days ago but is dated today. So you're welcome to stop trying to line up timestamps.
How about recording two dates on the post, the original post date and the re-upped date, and then putting something like "14 hours ago; originally 2 days ago" in the post header?
How about simply not tampering with the date on the post?
The most I imagine most folks saying is "Didn't I see this post on the front page days ago?". For many other discussion fora, it's not uncommon for posts to be at the top of the pile for many days... so a days-old post date should be nothing unusual.
That's exactly what we tried and didn't work. The amount of noise it generated was vastly greater than the noise the status quo generates, unsatisfactory though it is.
Agreed, although perhaps not as strongly; I remember seeing these comments from a few days ago, so I was feeling a little gaslit seeing the new timestamps and wondered if I'd hallucinated the original thread.
IMHO, it's less disorienting to have the post dated after the comments than it is to see a comment you thought you wrote a couple days ago but is dated today. So you're welcome to stop trying to line up timestamps.