Everything I post doesn't go through

2 points · 3 visible top comments · 2026-10-29 19:22:33 UTC

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I don't understand, I manually write posts for my projects that I just uploaded and for some reason it always just doesn't go through. It's like my account is blacklisted or something it refuses to let my posts go public. Does anyone know why this can happen and how to prevent it ?

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mentalgear · 2026-10-29 19:26:37 UTC

It's visible

gnabgib · 2026-10-29 19:38:05 UTC

Probably because of this:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Perhaps you could familiarize yourself with the Guidelines of the community, you've missed this one too:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Zeruxe · 2026-10-30 03:22:38 UTC

Okay thank you maybe I should of taken a better look at the guidelines.

Yeah I did contact them a month ago - no reply. Then again 2 weeks ago - also no reply.

Thats why I made this post.

altairprime · 2026-10-30 00:08:44 UTC

You only submit links to your own sites, and you only contribute to your own posts’ discussions. Based on your participation history I’d have emailed the mods to have your sites banned if the algorithm hadn’t caught on yet. The anti-spam systems are working correctly here.

Either participate genuinely over time as a contributing community member — a few months of frequent, meaningful participation in discussions excluding your own in between each of your self-submissions should suffice — or expect to see your sites correctly and permanently banned.