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Ask HN: Is My Account Flagged?

4 points by only_Dev 4y ago

detaro 4y ago
No, but you keep submitting spammy stuff from sites that are banned from HN. Maybe stop doing that.
- jaclaz 4y ago
  A user with a nick of "only_Dev" submitting almost only links to pages/articles on "dev.to", maybe you are considered to be spamming for your own site? BTW, almost every link to dev.to seems to be [dead], no matter who submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to So, maybe you could try posting something else.
  - detaro 4y ago
    yes, dev.to is banned, as are slack signup links, and that makes basically all their submissions.
ggm 4y ago
What do you do, which makes you think it might be? Make another, look in new, find your posts/comments or not, play with things & report back.
mtmail 4y ago
Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700360 months ago. If you haven't contacted the moderators via email yet do it today. (Personally I don't find the articles engaging, I mean not the kind that will spark a discussion and HN is mostly about discussing things)
- only_Dev 4y ago
  Do I need to mail them ?
  - arp242 4y ago
    That's what it says, yes. But I can already tell you now that you'll be told that most of your submissions aren't really a good fit for this site. You started out submitting stuff like "Latest Software Jobs Updates and Coupons of Free Courses Offered by Udemy". If that's not spam I don't know what is. Some of the newer submissions may be more on-topic; but stuff like "Everything About Open Source and How Will It Help Developers" or "Best YouTube Channel to Learn Coding" doesn't really fit the guidelines[1]: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Almost all of it seems to be to help people get started in development. That's fine to write, but often not really a good fit for HN. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - gus_massa 4y ago
      We probably agree. Just to clarify: A beginner article with original content, some interesting twist and some graphics/screenshots/live-demo may get traction here. A short post with a introduction and a link to material made by someone else will probably be ignored or flagged.

4 points by only_Dev 4y ago

detaro 4y ago

No, but you keep submitting spammy stuff from sites that are banned from HN. Maybe stop doing that.

jaclaz 4y ago
A user with a nick of "only_Dev" submitting almost only links to pages/articles on "dev.to", maybe you are considered to be spamming for your own site? BTW, almost every link to dev.to seems to be [dead], no matter who submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to So, maybe you could try posting something else.
- detaro 4y ago
  yes, dev.to is banned, as are slack signup links, and that makes basically all their submissions.

ggm 4y ago

What do you do, which makes you think it might be? Make another, look in new, find your posts/comments or not, play with things & report back.

mtmail 4y ago

Same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32700360 months ago. If you haven't contacted the moderators via email yet do it today. (Personally I don't find the articles engaging, I mean not the kind that will spark a discussion and HN is mostly about discussing things)

only_Dev 4y ago
Do I need to mail them ?
- arp242 4y ago
  That's what it says, yes. But I can already tell you now that you'll be told that most of your submissions aren't really a good fit for this site. You started out submitting stuff like "Latest Software Jobs Updates and Coupons of Free Courses Offered by Udemy". If that's not spam I don't know what is. Some of the newer submissions may be more on-topic; but stuff like "Everything About Open Source and How Will It Help Developers" or "Best YouTube Channel to Learn Coding" doesn't really fit the guidelines[1]: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Almost all of it seems to be to help people get started in development. That's fine to write, but often not really a good fit for HN. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - gus_massa 4y ago
    We probably agree. Just to clarify: A beginner article with original content, some interesting twist and some graphics/screenshots/live-demo may get traction here. A short post with a introduction and a link to material made by someone else will probably be ignored or flagged.