had the same idea, but I do so as well and link is exactly the same. edit: it doesn't really matter I guess. HN has some mechanisms which aren't public afaik.

had the same idea, but I do so as well and link is exactly the same. edit: it doesn't really matter I guess. HN has some mechanisms which aren't public afaik. How downvoting works exactly, how flagging works, who can, what the algorithms are for sorting. This account I'm using hadn't a successful submission before, but it's not that I spam submissions either. Four submissions in total and the account is 8 months old. But I guess it's just some automatic behavior of the site, well... shrug.