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How does HN banning work? My submitted posts never appear
Hey HN!
So, I made a login for HN a few weeks back. I submitted two posts originally (ASK HN posts) and got a few responses on each one. After that, none of my posts received any attention at all (granted, they could just have been very boring). But I recently submitted a post, then logged out and checked the NEW section on HN. My submitted post was not visible! It wasn't on the NEW section at all. When I viewed my profile (whilst not being logged in), I had nothing under the "submitted posts" section of my profile.
How and why was I banned? I only had about 5 posts overall, and all were questions (no spamming of any kind).
PS- this is a new account
- backbonetutes 14y agoI have the same problem, I cannot post links from any account, any ip or any domain. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to submit a post.
- jessepollak 14y agoHN uses silent banning. Basically, when you get banned everything looks normal on your side, but none of your posts or up votes visible to anyone else (unless they have the show dead option turned on in settings). If you want to, you can see banned accounts by going to your settings and enabling show dead.
- max_hacker 14y agoAh, that makes sense. Any idea on what causes it? I did try submitting a few times and received the message "You're submitting too fast" (even though it had been days since my last submission). PS- I came across one of your posts yesterday and today as well. I like reading your stuff man-- keep it up!