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Ask HN: Why does my online dating blog not show up on HN?
I've submitted things from it before, only to find that later they display only to me, not to other users. See? Nothing here, right? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1305427
The site is at http://onlinedatingmatchmaker.com and it has quality content on it. Is there a filter that bans sites with "onlinedating" in the URL?
- jolan 16y agoThere's something there, edit your profile and change showdead to yes. It probably got flagged as spam due to the spammy name of the URL.
- kadavy 16y agoThat's what I was thinking...so HN just completely blocks URLs based upon keywords in them? I wonder what other quality content gets blocked? What if iwillteachyoutoberich.com were blocked?
- jolan 16y agoI don't know if they do keyword blocking, but there is a lot of manual spam filtering via the 'flag' link. Usually I check the profile of the user who submitted it to see how long they've been active and what their karma is before hitting 'flag'.
- kadavy 16y agoThey must. Every time I've submitted something from this site, it has instantaneously not been visible. Just did a test, and had the same result. It's a shame because there are some articles that I think other HN readers would enjoy - not to mention the stuff I have in the pipeline.
- minalecs 16y agowell outside of a ask hn to review your site.. i would consider this spam. It depends on how you are submitting it.
- kadavy 16y agoWhy would you consider it spam? Have you read the articles on the site?
- minalecs 16y agoyes.. 1st. about coupons.. ( nothing to do with entrepreneurship, technical, programming.. etc) , 2nd. some good statistical analysis here ( you should of just submitted direct link to here) 3rd. article about responding to a wink( nothing to do with entrepreneurship, technical, programming.. etc) , 4. oped piece about about not talking about youself 5. another ad for signing in to match.com so out of the first 5 blog articles i visited only one of them would be considered good content for this site. spam
- kadavy 16y agoThe news item I'm referring to does link directly to the statistical analysis post you're describing. I don't know why we're even bothering discussing whether people would mark this site as spam (opinions on this thread seem to be tainted by the just-world fallacy). The articles on this site are frequently upvoted on HN when referenced, and the data from my other comment on this thread shows that HN readers are interested in its content. The bottom-line is: no matter what the content of an article on this site is, it will automatically be dead because of an overly-zealous filter. Is there anything that can be done about that?
- kadavy 16y agoAdditionally, I am disappointed that HNers have given upvotes to that comment. If you would actually look at the content of the article, you would find that it is well-researched, quality writing. This article was covered by several popular sites, including Jezebel.com.
- frossie 16y agoOkay well, I bothered to ask google about the article mentioned, it's at: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-profile/# http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof... if anyone cares. I don't know what the reason it gets deaded is, but it is really heavy with the online site promotion at the top, and I can see how someone would think it would be linkbait. Compare that to the okcupid blog: http://blog.okcupid.com/ http://blog.okcupid.com/ Which conveys the impression it is a proper blog, rather than a massive advertising exercise.
- kadavy 16y agoFor those who insinuate that the posts are getting flagged, here is data from my Analytics for the past two months, for visitors referred from Hacker News (from random links in comments on other submissions): Visits: 109 Pages/Visit: 3.18 Bounce Rate: 40.37% Average Time on Site: 3:48 HN readers seem to like the site just fine. HN appears to have a filter that makes articles from this site dead upon submission.