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So is Hacker News banning personal blogs according to their not-so-rich content? I have written a blog post, I thought it is about startups or tech and posted t

• ColinWright 14y ago
  I'm just telling you what I, as an outsider, see when I look at your blog. I have nothing to do with whether things are banned or not, whether they're popular or not, whether they're on topic or not, or whether they get flagged or not. You asked a question, and I replied to try to help you get some understanding and/or perspective on how others may view your blog and your submissions. The question of on-topic versus off-topic is debated reasonably often here, and it gets seriously tedious. That's why meta-discussions and off-topic stuff (for some definition, often changing) gets flagged and often quickly disappears because of the flags. One thing I do observe, though, is that things get upvoted when they add information to a topic. Simple statements about stuff, and people's largely content-free reactions to stuff, rarely get upvoted, and often get flagged. Yes, you've written blog posts about what you think about technology and startups. Good. you post them here and they're not getting any upvotes, and now you find that the domain is banned. You ask for it to be unbanned, but don't want to understand what might have got it banned in the first place. Fine, your prerogative. I won't try to help again.