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On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality But you do ban entire sites[1] without explanation. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ancient-origi
by masonic 7y ago
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality
But you do ban entire sites[1] without explanation.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ancient-origins.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ancient-origins.net
- dang 7y agoOf course. If we didn't, HN would be a spam site. Explanations are always available when people ask, and we answer questions like this every day. We banned the site you linked to because promotional accounts have been spamming HN with dozens of submissions from it, and because it appears to be mostly blogspam, i.e. lifted from other sources. I just did a spot check, and indeed the most recent submission (https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/medieval-ship-0013178 https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/med...) was lifted from https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/newport-medieval-ship-opening-date-17288380 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/newport-mediev.... HN readers expect us to ban that kind of thing. This isn't the class of sites I was talking about above (note the word "major").