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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.