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Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#1
A few of my last posts that got many votes up is removed from main page after a few minutes... Looks that someone does not like me... Is HN working that way that sympathy decides about posts and no community?

For example my today post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285674

It got +7 votes in about 3 minutes... Showed on main page... and dropped 2 minutes later.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#2
I don't know if that's the reason, but I've flagged your post by accident (wanted to click "comments"). But then I unflagged it, so this doesn't count?

Anyway - maybe someone thinks it's too repetative to add each post to hackernews? I don't think so (because I think of getting pasive income myself and find your post interesting), but I can understand if somebody did think that way - after all people interested in your posts could go to your page to read next posts, if they wanted to.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#3
post #2

I don't know if that's the reason, but I've flagged your post by accident (wanted to click "comments"). But then I unflagged it, so this doesn't count? Anyway - maybe someone thinks it's too repetative to add each post to hackernews? I don't think so (because I think of getting pasive income myself and find your post interesting), but I can understand if somebody did think that way - after all people interested in yo…

Thanks for reply. I think it would be to easy if anyone could flag post to be removed without checking by moderator. And most probably it is not the reason.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#4
Depending on how the upvotes came, there's some code to detect voting rings and externally-driven votes, and reduce their effect. So if for example it was 7 people who came from a link elsewhere (or who you know and asked to upvote it), that might explain it. No idea if that's the case here, just a possible mechanism other than being manually penalized.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#6
I would not have thought that 7 points was enough to hold a post on the front page - take a look at what else is there. If your post had continued to gain points then there is every chance it might have "stuck" for a while longer.

"Front Page Service" is not a right - it is a result. The result of an algorithm that measures several factors that represent the level of interest from the HN community.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#7
post #5

It is a little bizarre - I find your posts incredibly useful for the mobile space - so why this would get downvoted (if that's the reason) is beyond me.

This is HN. You can't down-vote a post. If you check the submissions list from this user you will see lots of posts - many with respectable scores indicating a good measure of interest.

I think this member of our community is upset at not getting continuous front page feature.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#8
post #6

I would not have thought that 7 points was enough to hold a post on the front page - take a look at what else is there. If your post had continued to gain points then there is every chance it might have "stuck" for a while longer. "Front Page Service" is not a right - it is a result. The result of an algorithm that measures several factors that represent the level of interest from the HN community.

From my experience it is enough it voted in so short time period as it was.

Re: Ask HN: Why my posts are removed?

#9

Depending on how the upvotes came, there's some code to detect voting rings and externally-driven votes, and reduce their effect. So if for example it was 7 people who came from a link elsewhere (or who you know and asked to upvote it), that might explain it. No idea if that's the case here, just a possible mechanism other than being manually penalized.

I have no idea who voted. I just submitted link to HN. And has not asked about upvotes anywhere.
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