Ask HN: Why do my posts keep getting stealth banned?

2 pointsadamlangsner3 comments

I just posted an ASK HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20502789) but it doesn't show up on /newest in an incognitor window. This happens every time I post something. Am I being banned? someone said that it won't show up unless someone upvotes it within a few minutes but I see plenty of 1 point posts in /newest all the time.

Is this normal behavior?

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Contact hn@ycombinator.com, they're quite responsive. I see you asked a similar question last month and I clicked the 'vouch' again. Being able to see the 'vouch' button requires 100 points (can't remember exactly).

I'd say some anti-spam score is negative. It doesn't happen often. Usually it's brand new accounts that get flagged by some algorithm, maybe they shared an IP address with another group of account that got banned, and then when the first submission isn't a good quality one, let's say a youtube video without summary, nobody vouches.

It looks like you got hellbanned when you mentioned Trump.

hah! I made a microsite a few years ago. it was just a big button that would unfollow him on twitter. I guess that was a bad thing to post on HN.

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