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I'm tired, dang. I wanted to delete this account, but I'm not allowed to do so. I didn't use it for years until I tried to contact someone here. Now, when I

I'm tired, dang. I wanted to delete this account, but I'm not allowed to do so. I didn't use it for years until I tried to contact someone here. Now, when I even try to submit something here into which I've poured effort, it doesn't appear in the new section until after it can no longer qualify for the front page, as an underhanded method of trying to make me believe no one cares about it. Why is Hacker News filled with political nonsense that gets hundreds of comments, while the programming topics get few or go ignored? It is so frustrating to try to have a conversation here, where people rather downvote and flag than write rebuttals. I tried to contribute to this forum, but my novel work goes ignored; my submission here with highest score merely hit hipster bingo. What am I supposed to do?

dang 4y ago
I don't understand what you mean by trying to contact someone, but if you mean contacting us, the way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Your account's submissions aren't specifically being penalized, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052487 was killed by our software because your submission history is getting classified as "primarily promotional", which is against the site guidelines ("Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). The way to prevent that from is to post a diverse mix of interesting/unrelated articles and include your own stuff as part of the mix. Nearly everyone's "novel work goes ignored" - that's the unfortunate consequence of frontpage space being the scarcest resource (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's nothing personal—it's hard for everyone. Re the question of politics on HN, some political overlap is inevitable on a site whose mandate is intellectual curiosity. Lots of past explanations can be found here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... What you're supposed to do is follow the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I know HN can be frustrating, but vandalizing it with aggressive attacks and flamewar helps nothing.

dang 4y ago

I don't understand what you mean by trying to contact someone, but if you mean contacting us, the way to do that is to email hn@ycombinator.com. Your account's submissions aren't specifically being penalized, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33052487 was killed by our software because your submission history is getting classified as "primarily promotional", which is against the site guidelines ("Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). The way to prevent that from is to post a diverse mix of interesting/unrelated articles and include your own stuff as part of the mix. Nearly everyone's "novel work goes ignored" - that's the unfortunate consequence of frontpage space being the scarcest resource (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20scarce&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's nothing personal—it's hard for everyone. Re the question of politics on HN, some political overlap is inevitable on a site whose mandate is intellectual curiosity. Lots of past explanations can be found here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... What you're supposed to do is follow the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. I know HN can be frustrating, but vandalizing it with aggressive attacks and flamewar helps nothing.