1. Is that inappropriate to do? I don't know that the site guidelines[1] specifically address this issue, but I would personally consider it inappropriate. 2.

1. Is that inappropriate to do? I don't know that the site guidelines[1] specifically address this issue, but I would personally consider it inappropriate. 2. Does HN have some kind of shadow banning? Either for users or my sites? I am nearly 100% certain that the answer is "yes" for both. Users can be shadow-banned and sites can be black-listed. All of that said the guidelines (or the FAQ[2], I forget) discourages making these kinds of "meta" posts as well. If you have a question about HN, you should probably just email the mods. I think it's info@ycombinator.com but dig through the guidelines / FAQ to be sure. If you email them and ask nicely and promise not to spam your own content all the time, maybe they'll agree to unblock your site (if it has indeed been blacklisted). No promises of course (I'm just a regular user here), but they seem to be reasonable people if approached in a reasonable way. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html