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Ask HN: Why can't I comment on a link I just posted?
I just submitted a link on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36289888) and wanted to provide a comment to explain a bit more about my submission, but I cannot comment on this, there is no form.
Why is that? Is my link pending review or moderation first?
- detaro 3y agoit appears the site its from is banned from HN
- cx42net 3y agoHum! The link is from Sciencealert.com. Where did you see it was banned from HN ? Is there any reasons why ?
- mtmail 3y agoThe article ends with "This article is republished from The Conversation". I'd guess it goes against "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
- cx42net 3y agoIndeed, posting the original link works directly. I suspect that HN has blacklisted ScienceAlert as a reposting website. Thanks for your help :) I posted it with the original link and will mention the reasons and details (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36290333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36290333)
- detaro 3y ago> Where did you see it was banned from HN ? I looked at the submission history and saw that ~all of them were marked as [dead], that's usually a site-ban then. (you might need "showdead" enabled in your settings to see that)
- cx42net 3y agoOh! Thanks for that!
- dredmorbius 3y agoHN mods can confirm this, and cx42net (or any other submitter) is encouraged to email mods at hn@ycombinator.com for this or other issues. I'd done so myself on a recent submission that was autokilled. As for ScienceAlert, looking at submissions from the site strongly suggests it's banned: <https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sciencealert.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sciencealert.com> That can be lifted for specific instances on request. Though in this case, the disambiguated link from The Conversation would be preferred: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
- eimrine 3y agoI see your topic as [dead]. I don't know anything about moderation here but the HN allows me to vouch some topics, maybe because I have high enough karma and I have set showdead option. That means that some kind of a moderation system (probably automated or semi-automated one) marked your post as kind of bad and somebody needs to vouch it. I do not want to vouch your post, because I do not want even to read anything tied to UFO events.