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Ask HN: Why my submissions and comments are not visible to others?
I just found out that more than 10 of my latest submissions and few of the latest comments are not visible to others. I can see all of them after I login, but nobody else can see them.
For example, here are few latest submissions
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041737
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029729
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014711
Others can not even see a list of my submissions. Check this,
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rahulchaudhary
What's going on here?
I created this throw away account just so that others can see this submission.
- japaget 16y agorahulchaudhary, your recent submissions have all been marked as "dead". See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, particularly: If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." There is also a list of websites that are considered to be mainly "fluff", and postings of links to them are automatically killed.
- throwaway9999 16y agoThanks for the reply. That explains about the submissions. What happened to my latest comments on the following threads which are not showing up for others? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041547 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041547 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038590 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038732 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038732 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038079 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038079
- japaget 16y agoHere's a link to the list of banned sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044
- mindcrime 16y agoI can see the listing fine, and it shows a lot of your submissions in [dead] status. Why they are in dead status, I cannot say. The FAQ says that things go "dead" usually because they're either spam or duplicates. That or maybe you ticked off one of the editors? <shrug />