Last time I submitted a link it was immediately flagged to death, although I have to use an Incognito mode tab to see that. I'm not wasting any more of my time on that.
replyThe only link you've ever submitted that disappeared was for linkedin.. which is a banned site. No one flagged it, HN just rejects it.
replySomeone found a better URL for that (Fabrice Bellard) story (16 points, 10 days later) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49996383
Unless there was another one you later deleted?
That's the one, and it's one third of all the links I've ever posted, or, probably, will ever post. What you say may be true, but it was still immediately flagged to death, regardless of how that happened, and the HN software is still trying to be sneaky about it. If my contributions are treated as spam, I'm not going to persist.
replyCertain domains being blacklisted is completely understandable if you consider the history of the site and culture(s) of the users. It's nothing to do with it being "your contribution".
replyThat could be handled with an error message instead of assuming bad faith on my part. Given that it was handled (and continues to be handled) with sneaky shadowbanning measures, I have no interest in attempting to circumvent the spam filter by submitting future links.
replyShadowbans are used here for the same reason anyone else uses them to handle anything: to avoid tipping off outsiders (especially ones who might be trying to automate attacks).
reply“Wasting time” by copy-pasting link title and url? Sounds excessively optimized time management to me. Save 10 minutes elsewhere, and you got 50+ submissions worth to spend!
replyMost submissions never receive any upvotes. They’re all “wasted” like that, even if not flagged.
It's been posted 4 times in the last 2 months: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=maggieappleton.com%2Fplanning-agen... No comments though
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