Ask HN: Why is my submission getting deleted?

3 points·darxius··6 comments

I just wrote up a quick article here: http://maxmackie.com/2013/04/23/Getting-into-Node.js-is-easy,-now-its-your-turn/

I've submitted it twice now and every time is shows up as [dead] on the "new" page instantly. Am I getting stuck in a spam filter?

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I don't know why the post is auto-dead. I saw it and I think it's too personal (You tried node.js. It worked. You are happy.) It has very few technical/original/strange results.

I saw your former submissions. I liked (and upvoted): "How to cool your home server (the wrong way)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3578240 (the original link no longer works, direct link: http://maxmackie.com/2012/02/10/How-to-cool-your-home-server... ) It has technical/original/strange results and photos!

(Note: A few months ago I had a misconfigured computer with a overclocked cpu, and the only way to keep it cool and quiet was using and external 2' fan, (no photos avaiable).)

Haha thanks. I forgot about that ... fun times.

I think self promotion is frowned upon. Maybe if you framed it as a Tell HN it might be better received.

Really? I've been submitting my blog posts (infrequent as they may be) here since the beginning. I didn't know it was frowned upon, my bad.

I've only ever submitted one of my own posts. It got killed instantly. I had no track record of doing this, but I guess russel is right. The moderators don't like you doing it.

EDIT : I checked, you use a pseudonym I don't suppose it identifies you as the writer of the posts.

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