I am not spamming. I have a 7-year-old account and have posted only one post that is 7 years old. I was trying to post a github repo link.
I am not able to submit URLs
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#2Looks like it worked, you must be doing something right.
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#3It looks like you posted a Medium link. I believe Medium and Dev.To articles are instantly suppressed on HN because they often tend to be low quality.
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#4Looks like it worked, you must be doing something right.
Looks like it's his no-URL-included submission that worked.
In theory, there might be a minimum karma to post URLS. The official HN FAQ only notes a minimum karma to be able to downvote. There are unofficial FAQ's, but I pay too little attention to be able to recommend one.
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#5Looks like it worked, you must be doing something right.
Looks like it's his no-URL-included submission that worked. In theory, there might be a minimum karma to post URLS. The official HN FAQ only notes a minimum karma to be able to downvote. There are unofficial FAQ's, but I pay too little attention to be able to recommend one.
You can see a lot more if you toggle the “showdead” flag in your profile. A lot of posts go into the “dead” state right away, usually because somebody keeps posting nothing but links to the same blog. I see he had one “dead” back in 2017. My advice is he should:
1. Look at articles on the front page, pick out a site which frequently gets articles there
2. Look at 10 or so articles from those sites and pick the one you like the best.
3. Post and see what happened.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like it's his no-URL-included submission that worked. In theory, there might be a minimum karma to post URLS. The official HN FAQ only notes a minimum karma to be able to downvote. There are unofficial FAQ's, but I pay too little attention to be able to recommend one.
You can see a lot more if you toggle the “showdead” flag in your profile. A lot of posts go into the “dead” state right away, usually because somebody keeps posting nothing but links to the same blog. I see he had one “dead” back in 2017. My advice is he should: 1. Look at articles on the front page, pick out a site which frequently gets articles there 2. Look at 10 or so articles from those sites and pick the one yo…
That's an interesting idea. I was trying to post a GitHub repo, which is frequent in posts. Yet I was denied.
Re: I am not able to submit URLs
#7It looks like you posted a Medium link. I believe Medium and Dev.To articles are instantly suppressed on HN because they often tend to be low quality.
That was seven years ago. I've seen enough Medium articles in the last year to know they are not automatically suppressed. Same with Dev.to
The old article might have been auto-killed because it was from a green account and had the same subdomain as the user's HN account. Back in 2017, that might have auto-killed it. Not sure it would kill it today. But it might.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can see a lot more if you toggle the “showdead” flag in your profile. A lot of posts go into the “dead” state right away, usually because somebody keeps posting nothing but links to the same blog. I see he had one “dead” back in 2017. My advice is he should: 1. Look at articles on the front page, pick out a site which frequently gets articles there 2. Look at 10 or so articles from those sites and pick the one yo…
That's an interesting idea. I was trying to post a GitHub repo, which is frequent in posts. Yet I was denied.
It looks like it is live now.
But the subdomain matches your user name and your account does not have a history of engagement with HN (irrespective of its age). That may correlate with low quality content in general and threrefore there might be a "self-promotion" heuristic in place.
It's not that self-promotion is banned on HN. But using HN only for self-promotion is generally discouraged (or explicitly discouraged) because it sucks up oxygen without much benefit to the community.