[OP] Can someone explain to me why when I submit my articles to HN [1] they are mostly ignored but when other people submit them they go to front page? Why is

[OP] Can someone explain to me why when I submit my articles to HN [1] they are mostly ignored but when other people submit them they go to front page? Why is there no automatic post merging? It’s really hard to keep track of replies and engage when I’m looking at the original submission edit: I’m also not sure why this submission has a question mark. This article wasn’t intended to be a question [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35701341