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Have been trying to submit a post on our work/startup: http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-paper-is-not-and.html http://blog.bubbleideas.co

Have been trying to submit a post on our work/startup: http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-paper-is-not-and.html http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-pape... My karma at HN isn't bad (+60 for ~15 comments). Am I missing something?

ColinWright 14y ago
To use the bookmarklet, drag it to your tool bar. Then navigate to the page you want to submit, and click on the resulting button. Alternatively, don't use the bookmarklet, click on "submit", and then fill in the Title and URL fields. Click here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/submit http://news.ycombinator.com/submit You've submitted things before - what exactly are you trying to do?
- monsterix 14y ago
  ColinWright, I have submitted URLs from properties that do not belong to me. Like a news article or interesting blog that I read and felt was worthwhile. This time I wanted to post the URL: http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-paper-is-not-and.html http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-pape... which is an article on my own startup. I submitted it once, but link never appeared live on HN. It was dead on arrival, and faded out immediately after submission. I used http://news.ycombinator.com/submit http://news.ycombinator.com/submit only. I got frightened and deleted the post assuming that HN had killed it for [dead link]. Now I am trying to resubmit the article, but it says "Stop spamming us. You're wasting our time." I don't want to spam. I want to "Show HN: My work".
  - ColinWright 14y ago
    The most common cause of "dead on arrival" is submitting a domain that is on the black list. I have no knowledge of the domain in question, so I can't comment on whether that's likely. My only suggestions are: * Get your content hosted on another domain, or * email PG and ask why it's DOA. If you do the latter I suggest you first take time to hunt out advice on getting replies to emails to busy people. I have no particular inside knowledge, so this is the best I can offer. Good luck.
    - monsterix 14y ago
      Thank you @colinwright! I have emailed in short to PG and sought his help with this matter.

ColinWright 14y ago

To use the bookmarklet, drag it to your tool bar. Then navigate to the page you want to submit, and click on the resulting button. Alternatively, don't use the bookmarklet, click on "submit", and then fill in the Title and URL fields. Click here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/submit http://news.ycombinator.com/submit You've submitted things before - what exactly are you trying to do?

monsterix 14y ago
ColinWright, I have submitted URLs from properties that do not belong to me. Like a news article or interesting blog that I read and felt was worthwhile. This time I wanted to post the URL: http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-paper-is-not-and.html http://blog.bubbleideas.com/2012/05/what-is-letter-that-pape... which is an article on my own startup. I submitted it once, but link never appeared live on HN. It was dead on arrival, and faded out immediately after submission. I used http://news.ycombinator.com/submit http://news.ycombinator.com/submit only. I got frightened and deleted the post assuming that HN had killed it for [dead link]. Now I am trying to resubmit the article, but it says "Stop spamming us. You're wasting our time." I don't want to spam. I want to "Show HN: My work".
- ColinWright 14y ago
  The most common cause of "dead on arrival" is submitting a domain that is on the black list. I have no knowledge of the domain in question, so I can't comment on whether that's likely. My only suggestions are: * Get your content hosted on another domain, or * email PG and ask why it's DOA. If you do the latter I suggest you first take time to hunt out advice on getting replies to emails to busy people. I have no particular inside knowledge, so this is the best I can offer. Good luck.
  - monsterix 14y ago
    Thank you @colinwright! I have emailed in short to PG and sought his help with this matter.