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Ask HN: What am I supposed to do when a good submission is [dead]?
I mean - should I upvote it, or, conversely, flag it to draw attention of moderators?
- gus_massa 12y agoI usually first check that it was not resubmitted for the 1000th time https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ You can email the moderator: hn@ycombinator.com (username: dang) I still upvote the submission. I'm almost sure that the upvote is ignored and forgetted, but I still like to upvote it because it's a good submission. I sometimes flag bad submission, when they are extremely bad.
- r721 12y ago>I usually first check that it was not resubmitted for the 1000th time Good point, didn't think about that. >You can email the moderator That seems like too much of an effort, it's not like the submission is the greatest ever. Sometimes it's obvious that submission was killed automatically for some reason (IP?), i.e. when it's a new user with the only submission to a good article from a respectable site.
- dang 12y agoWe actually have in our pipeline an idea of allowing user upvotes to bring comments and stories back from [dead]. I have no idea when we'll get to it, though. In the meantime, gus_massa has it right: check that it isn't a dupe, and then email us at hn@ycombinator.com if the story is particularly good. You can also try reposting it by using a slightly different URL—but only if it isn't a dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
- r721 12y agoThanks!