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Ask HN: why did the box.com promotion disappear from HN
Hi,
I am curious why that link that was submitted on HN for 50 gigs free disappeared from HN.
I feel it was something useful for many of us.
Are promotions in violation of the rules of conduct ?
- johng 14y agoI'm curious about this myself. My paranoid side says because it competes with Dropbox. My sane side says that its still just an advert... but a useful one, since I signed up for box to get it.
- jschuur 14y agoWas someone's referral code embedded in the link?
- dz0ny 14y agoIt was sponsored by Dell, for Dell customers :) signup/o/dell_50gb_give_get
- thoughtcriminal 14y agoIt seemed like a great offer, so I snagged it. Dropbox has been a bit sketchy for me lately, so I'm ready to consider alternatives.
- benologist 14y agoIt really only takes one or two people to flag you to fall down to page 2 after which it is almost impossibly hard to get back onto page 1. There may be no obvious reason you get flagged.
- Danieru 14y agoIt only takes a few flags to kill a fresh submission. Anything referral or similar is doing to have a high flag risk. It may not be a rule violation but HN is supposed to be self moderating. Up and down votes help garner a consensus over encouraged behaviour. Doing a bit further are flags. I can well see people flagging a promotional code. I and many others come to HN for the discussion and we would be very disappointed if HN become a coupon hub.
- amyunus 14y agoDisappeared? I still can find it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208009 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208009
- Maven911 14y agoYeah it came back now