Ask HN: Impact of of [dead] links on submitter privileges
I posted on HN when I quit my corporate job (id=209576). I've posted about my time at Sun (1999-2007) and about my experience as a manager. I've attend start up school numerous times and have really enjoyed the experience.
I tell you all this because I want to make it clear that I am a real person here and not someone who has tried to promote their start up or do any kind of spam. In this question, I will not post any links directly that go outside of HN.
HubPages is now a site that has been blacklisted at Hacker News (For the record, I still a big fan of HubPages even though I stopped working there in February). All the links that I submitted from HubPages are now marked [dead] even though they work fine. To be clear, I do not have any problem with this. Hacker News has been maintaining a high quality of content for news stories. I understand that this is part of what happens.
I understand why the links have been marked [dead]. HubPages is a user generated web site and as such, many of its users have used whatever means to promote their links. This has resulted in low quality submissions and spammers and that's why HubPages has been uniformly blocked. Wikipedia also has HubPages blocked (An editor at Wikipedia did eventually approve links I posted to blog.hubpages.com because they saw that they were relevant to the article on HubPages).
I write this because I want to make clear that all the links I posted here were to blog.hubpages.com and were to links to blog posts that I wrote and which I hoped would be interesting to the audience on HN. These were my views on the trends in the social content space.
None of the stories I submitted got any above a 1 rating. This may because it was linked to HubPages. This may be because the content is my stories was judged not to be too interesting. I accept those judgments. It is those judgments which makes Hacker News such a great site! After getting enough of those nonresponses, I stopped submitting any of my blog posts to HN.
My question is how does having [dead] links in your submissions affect your status at HN? I ask this because it seems to me to be a mark of shame to have it, as if I've been labeled a spammer. I think if someone has a large number, that should penalize them. I have 7 of them at present.
I thought that it might be valuable to ask this question since other people active on this site, especially user-generated web sites will hit issues of web site reputation. If a link that we post becomes [dead], does this have any effect on the user? Will this person automatically be denied if they apply to start up school? Is there any process for getting a change in status to [dead] links?
Is there a list anywhere of all the web sites that are currently blocked on HN?
Thanks very much
-Larry