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Thanks.Is promoting your own content frowned upon even if the content is relevant to HN and created in good faith?

• mtmail 7y ago
  Users submitting their own websites or blog posts is absolutely normal (and expected). I'd say a previous submission got flagged and with very low karma (upvotes, <5) there was some kind of threshold which puts all new submissions on hold ([dead]) until another user with high karma vouches for it. I'm not a moderator, it's my observation only. Blog post is relevant, just seems to have falled through the cracks when nobody vouched fast enough.
  • adamlangsner 7y ago
    Thanks for the explanation and the vouch. I think I had a post a few years ago that got flagged because I was more naive about posting on HN back then (guess I'm still pretty naive :)).