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Ask HN: Was My Post Stealth Banned?

1 pointadamlangsner7 comments

I just posted this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20287021 I can see it on the newest page when logged in but not in incognito. It doesn't show as flagged or dead when I'm logged in.

I mistakenly named the post "8 Tips for Smoother Code Review" because that was the article name. I then realized that starting a post with a number is against HN guidelines. I quickly changed the name to "Some Tips for Smoother Code Review". But the post is still invisible.

Am I doing something wrong? This post seems relevant to the HN community.

Can I delete it and repost it or will that make me look like a spammer?

It shows up as [dead] on my end, as does this thread. You might want to contact the moderators and convince them you're not a spammer. Your most recent links all seem to be promoting your own content, so maybe that's what they took issue with.

I clicked 'vouch' now which makes the [dead] go away.

Thanks.Is promoting your own content frowned upon even if the content is relevant to HN and created in good faith?

Users submitting their own websites or blog posts is absolutely normal (and expected). I'd say a previous submission got flagged and with very low karma (upvotes, <5) there was some kind of threshold which puts all new submissions on hold ([dead]) until another user with high karma vouches for it. I'm not a moderator, it's my observation only. Blog post is relevant, just seems to have falled through the cracks when nobody vouched fast enough.

Thanks for the explanation and the vouch. I think I had a post a few years ago that got flagged because I was more naive about posting on HN back then (guess I'm still pretty naive :)).

I have also vouched for this post. Hope that sorts it out, you seem human enough :)

:))) That's what my mom tells me.

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