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Hello, I'm the author and the person who shared the post. Have I done something wrong to have this marked as spam? I've written about financial tech startups

Hello, I'm the author and the person who shared the post. Have I done something wrong to have this marked as spam? I've written about financial tech startups for the past 5 years and can confirm, banks are worried about these guys as well as Apollo bank which just got a license this week.

dang 11y ago
> Have I done something wrong to have this marked as spam? Not really. I don't think the users who flagged this post were being very fair, and we've turned the flags off. In their defense, though, HN does see a lot of posts that look and read a bit like this one and really are spammy. Users here are a bit different from general web readership in that they value information over slogans and want the substantive details of a story. They tend to look down on enthusiastic reporting as PR. You're welcome to repost it (you'll need to use a slightly different URL to bypass the duplicate detector). Give it a more substantive title, though, and users here will probably react better. Something like the title we changed this post to would be fine, or anything along those lines. Email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have any questions. (I'm a moderator of HN.)
- alexwoodcreates 11y ago
  Hi Dang, Thanks so much for getting back to me, I appreciate it. Have resubmitted and will take on the feedback for future posts.
  - dang 11y ago
    Posts using link shorteners get killed, so that one didn't go through. All you need to do is make a tiny tweak to the original URL, such as adding or removing a trailing slash or a query string. The duplicate detector is left porous like this to allow reposts of good articles that haven't had much attention yet.
mangeletti 11y ago
I didn't flag this. I simply thought the HN title of the OP was click bait and should be changed. I only later updated my comment to note that it appeared to be marked as spam. Also, FTR, I have upvoted the post.

dang 11y ago

> Have I done something wrong to have this marked as spam? Not really. I don't think the users who flagged this post were being very fair, and we've turned the flags off. In their defense, though, HN does see a lot of posts that look and read a bit like this one and really are spammy. Users here are a bit different from general web readership in that they value information over slogans and want the substantive details of a story. They tend to look down on enthusiastic reporting as PR. You're welcome to repost it (you'll need to use a slightly different URL to bypass the duplicate detector). Give it a more substantive title, though, and users here will probably react better. Something like the title we changed this post to would be fine, or anything along those lines. Email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you have any questions. (I'm a moderator of HN.)

alexwoodcreates 11y ago
Hi Dang, Thanks so much for getting back to me, I appreciate it. Have resubmitted and will take on the feedback for future posts.
- dang 11y ago
  Posts using link shorteners get killed, so that one didn't go through. All you need to do is make a tiny tweak to the original URL, such as adding or removing a trailing slash or a query string. The duplicate detector is left porous like this to allow reposts of good articles that haven't had much attention yet.

mangeletti 11y ago

I didn't flag this. I simply thought the HN title of the OP was click bait and should be changed. I only later updated my comment to note that it appeared to be marked as spam. Also, FTR, I have upvoted the post.