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Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en m

Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en masse. That's generally considered to undesirably skew the voting, and will get detected and flagged. Maybe if you just re-posted without the appeal to your fans, you'd see how well your product and pitch resonate with the HN community.

twanschik 13y ago
We posted merely 2 weeks ago. So, many HN users could down-vote it because of that. What do you think?
- 6thSigma 13y ago
  You can't downvote links on HN. You only have to worry about not receiving upvotes.
  - twanschik 13y ago
    Sorry, I meant getting flagged.
    - 6thSigma 13y ago
      People flag things with no rhyme or reason I've found. I wouldn't worry about that. I'd be more worried about getting the domain banned from HN in regards to reposting it. But that probably won't happen unless you do it a lot.
- samstokes 13y ago
  I don't know, how long were you on the front page before you got taken off? People won't complain about double posting unless they actually saw it the first time!
twanschik 13y ago
Thanks, we posted it again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978451