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Wow. This post was marked dead within a minute of it being posted. I "vouched" for it, though given my pariah status on HN for calling out SV on social issues (

Wow. This post was marked dead within a minute of it being posted. I "vouched" for it, though given my pariah status on HN for calling out SV on social issues (such as racism), I'm surprised my "vouch" had any affect. I have a lot more to say but HN doesn't really welcome my point of view, so...

dang 6y ago
That site has been banned on HN for 7 years, for whatever reason. Posts get autokilled when a site is banned. You're certainly not a pariah on HN. But would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments? You've done it a lot, and those comments usually get downvoted, which is a correct use of downvotes. Your point of view is as welcome as anyone else's, if you'd express it more substantively.
- manaman 6y ago
  Hello Dang, Could you please share more details on sites getting banned? I did a quick glance of the site in question, doesn't see much to get banned. Thanks
  - dang 6y ago
    There are lots of reasons why a site might get banned, but the main ones are when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles. In this case it's hard to say because 2013 was a long time ago. It might have been because someone was oversubmitting or trying to promote the site on HN. That's another reason why we might ban a site. This site looks like an online magazine focused on the SF Bay Area. When I look at the submissions I see a penchant for sensational titles and a lot of articles that aren't on topic for HN, but also a few articles that would make good HN submissions, except possibly for the titles. Two examples of good ones: https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-b126070998d8 https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden... https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-go-camping-7481c587d94 https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-g... (good article, bad title) For that category of site, we generally don't ban the domain, but rather downweight it to countervail the sensationalism. I'll switch this one over.

dang 6y ago

That site has been banned on HN for 7 years, for whatever reason. Posts get autokilled when a site is banned. You're certainly not a pariah on HN. But would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments? You've done it a lot, and those comments usually get downvoted, which is a correct use of downvotes. Your point of view is as welcome as anyone else's, if you'd express it more substantively.

manaman 6y ago
Hello Dang, Could you please share more details on sites getting banned? I did a quick glance of the site in question, doesn't see much to get banned. Thanks
- dang 6y ago
  There are lots of reasons why a site might get banned, but the main ones are when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles. In this case it's hard to say because 2013 was a long time ago. It might have been because someone was oversubmitting or trying to promote the site on HN. That's another reason why we might ban a site. This site looks like an online magazine focused on the SF Bay Area. When I look at the submissions I see a penchant for sensational titles and a lot of articles that aren't on topic for HN, but also a few articles that would make good HN submissions, except possibly for the titles. Two examples of good ones: https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-b126070998d8 https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden... https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-go-camping-7481c587d94 https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-g... (good article, bad title) For that category of site, we generally don't ban the domain, but rather downweight it to countervail the sensationalism. I'll switch this one over.