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Ask HN: We screwed up our HN post. What next?

#1
After 2 years of hard work on our web app we made the mistake to ask our beta testers to support us on HN.

Because of this we got reported and removed from the front page - which is understandable in hindsight.

We believe in our wireframing solution and would like to share it with the world. Is there a chance to post again on HN without getting banned? Or do you have other suggestions to go public?

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#3
Make a new account, set up a voting ring (a proper voting ring this time, where the accounts have some history - ask your HN-using friends to help out). You only need about 4 upvotes to make the front page and then momentum will help you if you're any good. Ever wonder how the Buffer guys keep making the frontpage despite basically rehashing the same article over and over?

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#5
Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en masse. That's generally considered to undesirably skew the voting, and will get detected and flagged.

Maybe if you just re-posted without the appeal to your fans, you'd see how well your product and pitch resonate with the HN community.

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#6

Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en masse. That's generally considered to undesirably skew the voting, and will get detected and flagged. Maybe if you just re-posted without the appeal to your fans, you'd see how well your product and pitch resonate with the HN community.

We posted merely 2 weeks ago. So, many HN users could down-vote it because of that. What do you think?

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#7

Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en masse. That's generally considered to undesirably skew the voting, and will get detected and flagged. Maybe if you just re-posted without the appeal to your fans, you'd see how well your product and pitch resonate with the HN community.

We posted merely 2 weeks ago. So, many HN users could down-vote it because of that. What do you think?

You can't downvote links on HN. You only have to worry about not receiving upvotes.

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#8
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We posted merely 2 weeks ago. So, many HN users could down-vote it because of that. What do you think?

You can't downvote links on HN. You only have to worry about not receiving upvotes.

Sorry, I meant getting flagged.

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#9
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't downvote links on HN. You only have to worry about not receiving upvotes.

Sorry, I meant getting flagged.

People flag things with no rhyme or reason I've found. I wouldn't worry about that.

I'd be more worried about getting the domain banned from HN in regards to reposting it. But that probably won't happen unless you do it a lot.

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