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Ask HN: Why are my submissions invisible to all but me?

Hello All, I recently noticed that all of my submissions can't be seen by anyone except myself when I am logged in. The user name in question is omegasoft (I made this account just so this post could be visible). I am still pretty new to all of this so perhaps I have run afoul of the system somehow. I know one submission I made (not the most recent one) was not correct; but I'm not sure if that's the cause. Can someone please tell me a proper course of action to fix my account, and notes on how to be a better submitter; thanks!

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Thanks for the replies. It is strange because I had maybe 5 submissions; some of which were upvoted around 7 times or so. The only submission I now realize was bad was a press release about a new release of one of our apps. So that got my entire account nuked I guess? I suppose I should just post further news under this name then?

Edit: Hi PG; Again, I'm new at this so I'm not sure what you mean. I posted the link to my submissions on an iPhone developer forum I frequent; asking other developers to check them out and upvote if its useful. Is that what you mean by bogus? If so I'm sorry and won't do it again. I think you just banned this account as well so that is why I am saying this in an edit. I want to be a useful contributing member here; I am reading the guidelines over again now. I apologize again; please be fair with me. Thank you.

It was not so much the content of your posts as the bogus upvotes on them.

Stories can be killed if they are flagged (as spam / off-topic) by several people, but given that omegasoft is shown as having 17 karma (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=omegasoft) I find it a bit peculiar that there isn't a single submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=omegasoft) or commend (http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=omegasoft) shown.

Maybe the account was marked as being spammy and all of its associated submissions and comments were nuked? I think this is an 'Ask PG', not an 'Ask HN'.

Arg; I thought this was going to go under the "ask" tab. Man I really stink at this!

It's not on the 'ask' tab because it doesn't have enough votes yet.

EDIT: And now this has 3 votes, and I see it at the top of the 'ask' tab.

You have been banned.

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