At the very least, anything written by Adrian Chen probably should be.

I submitted a gawker story two years ago: ""Alien Life" in this Meteorite was already published in 2004 and 2007" (gawker.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2294142 (761 days ago, 1 point, 0 comments) [dead]

It was autodead. I still think that my story was interesting, at that there were a few threads about "new" "aliens" were "found" in meteorites. But whatever, I didn't want to start a war for this.

It was quite technical and not about some internet celebrity. I suspect that gawker.com is banned.

I think so. I've had a deadspin story I submitted disappear, even though it was on-topic. (It was a story about satellite feeds glitching under certain conditions.)

Yes, I can confirm this. I just tried submitting a link and it died.