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I did not know HN blocked legit content. Can you give me an example?

by sid6376 15y ago

strmpnk 15y ago
Nodejitsu's blog is the example I was referring too. Edit: submissions will silently be hidden. Following the link below brings me to a blank page. Also nothing on the new tab.
- viraptor 15y ago
  That's strange... could someone confirm? I would be very disappointed if that was true and not widely known. On the other hand, I didn't have any problems with submitting that link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146239 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146239
  - genieyclo 15y ago
    Here is the list of banned sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 "The great majority are banned for spamming and/or voting rings. Others (like url shortening services, squidoo, etc) are banned because they're often used by spammers. Others are banned for the reasons I listed in that recent essay: linkjacking, being offtopic, or characteristically being fluff."
    - mmahemoff 15y ago
      Thanks, didn't know about that. 3 years old though, I'm assuming there's a more up-to-date list in operation.
  - marakmarak 15y ago
    FYI, that link is "silently banned". The link appears fine in your session. Try the link from a new session / IP. You'll see it's dead.
- llambda 15y ago
  Perhaps this is related to the track record of at least one of the Nodejitsu founders (digging a little there's a fair amount of blog-related drama although not on their blog so maybe this isn't a fair evaluation)? Although in principle I agree that "legitimate content" shouldn't be blocked, if spam has happened from or is related to a blog it's only reasonable to expect that such a blog might become blocked (how else should the moderators handle this?), the other legitimate content notwithstanding.
  - lclarkmichalek 15y ago
    At least on reddit, if Marak Squires posts anything at all, drama follows (justified or not). Maybe it's for the best that it can't be posted here.
  - rwaldron 15y ago
    "Perhaps this is related to the track record of at least one of the Nodejitsu founders" This is irrelevant to applications hosted on his company's domain.
- mnemonicsloth 15y ago
  Just speculating, but silence seems like the right behavior for dealing with spam submissions. If you tell spammers when you reject their posts, they'll just start working on spams that are harder to filter.

I did not know HN blocked legit content. Can you give me an example?

by sid6376 15y ago

I did not know HN blocked legit content. Can you give me an example?

Nodejitsu's blog is the example I was referring too. Edit: submissions will silently be hidden. Following the link below brings me to a blank page. Also nothing on the new tab.

viraptor 15y ago
That's strange... could someone confirm? I would be very disappointed if that was true and not widely known. On the other hand, I didn't have any problems with submitting that link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146239 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146239
- genieyclo 15y ago
  Here is the list of banned sites: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 "The great majority are banned for spamming and/or voting rings. Others (like url shortening services, squidoo, etc) are banned because they're often used by spammers. Others are banned for the reasons I listed in that recent essay: linkjacking, being offtopic, or characteristically being fluff."
  - mmahemoff 15y ago
    Thanks, didn't know about that. 3 years old though, I'm assuming there's a more up-to-date list in operation.
- marakmarak 15y ago
  FYI, that link is "silently banned". The link appears fine in your session. Try the link from a new session / IP. You'll see it's dead.
llambda 15y ago
Perhaps this is related to the track record of at least one of the Nodejitsu founders (digging a little there's a fair amount of blog-related drama although not on their blog so maybe this isn't a fair evaluation)? Although in principle I agree that "legitimate content" shouldn't be blocked, if spam has happened from or is related to a blog it's only reasonable to expect that such a blog might become blocked (how else should the moderators handle this?), the other legitimate content notwithstanding.
- lclarkmichalek 15y ago
  At least on reddit, if Marak Squires posts anything at all, drama follows (justified or not). Maybe it's for the best that it can't be posted here.
- rwaldron 15y ago
  "Perhaps this is related to the track record of at least one of the Nodejitsu founders" This is irrelevant to applications hosted on his company's domain.
mnemonicsloth 15y ago
Just speculating, but silence seems like the right behavior for dealing with spam submissions. If you tell spammers when you reject their posts, they'll just start working on spams that are harder to filter.