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No idea. Although I'm not your target audience, the site seems to me to be perfectly respectable and useful. I very much doubt it was any of the factors you m

No idea. Although I'm not your target audience, the site seems to me to be perfectly respectable and useful. I very much doubt it was any of the factors you mention. It is likely that as a new user with low karma it takes fewer "flag" clicks to kill your item, but I don't see why it should've attracted any flags at all. It does, however, read a lot like an advertisement, and perhaps people thought it was really spam, a point of view bolstered somewhat by the new user/low karma issue. Try again, only this time perhaps say what you want from HN readers. Ask for reactions and advice, and see if it gets flagged dead again. It may have just been unfortunate timing. My recent item asking for article suggestions in sinking largely without any reaction - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540610 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540610 - but I'll just shrug and move on.

joebo 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. I intentionally tried to add more context to the post instead of just posting a link and asking for feedback. I have learned a lot from hanging here and hoped my experience would be another data point for hackers who think its all about the tech as I did when I started...I can see how it can be a little wordy and misinterpretted.
- shafqat 16y ago
  Not sure why you got downvoted for this comment. I've upvoted you to bring you back to neutral. Seems weird.
  - ivenkys 16y ago
    Not wanting to sound like good old days but "Seems weird" is about right , the voting patterns in the last year has been very different. Relevant comments and topic submissions that you would think were of interest to "Hackers" just don't seem to get upvoted enough and in many cases simply drop out. This could be a sign of the changing demographics.
    - dkarl 16y ago
      I've noticed that my comments often dip immediately to negative scores before recovering. Lord knows some of my comments are worth downvoting, but it's weird that relevant and sincere comments can get downvoted to -3 or -4 within half an hour of being posted and then get gradually upvoted into double digits.

joebo 16y ago

Thanks for the reply. I intentionally tried to add more context to the post instead of just posting a link and asking for feedback. I have learned a lot from hanging here and hoped my experience would be another data point for hackers who think its all about the tech as I did when I started...I can see how it can be a little wordy and misinterpretted.

shafqat 16y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted for this comment. I've upvoted you to bring you back to neutral. Seems weird.
- ivenkys 16y ago
  Not wanting to sound like good old days but "Seems weird" is about right , the voting patterns in the last year has been very different. Relevant comments and topic submissions that you would think were of interest to "Hackers" just don't seem to get upvoted enough and in many cases simply drop out. This could be a sign of the changing demographics.
  - dkarl 16y ago
    I've noticed that my comments often dip immediately to negative scores before recovering. Lord knows some of my comments are worth downvoting, but it's weird that relevant and sincere comments can get downvoted to -3 or -4 within half an hour of being posted and then get gradually upvoted into double digits.