sorry the editing got messed up, this is what I meant to write: > I wrote a Show HN post, then crossed my fingers... and with luck, the post ended up upvoted,

sorry the editing got messed up, this is what I meant to write: > I wrote a Show HN post, then crossed my fingers... and with luck, the post ended up upvoted, and eventually on the front page of Hacker News. Well it doesn't help when HN quietly shadow bans your posts. I have been a member of HN since 2013 and have barely submitted like 10 posts over this time. I only comment where I think I can contribute but recently I have realized that HN has shadow bans my posts. Once I wrote a comment on HN about slippery slope of self hosting apps which I host and people seemed interested. So I decided to write a substack article about it and post it on HN. Guess what, HN shadow banned it because I am not supposed to submit stuff that I wrote but submit things I found on internet interesting. Then recently I shared a reddit post on an Upwork scam and HN shadow banned it too. smh..