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Ask HN: Why my story got dead?
1 point by vishnucom on Aug 8, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I have submitted a story(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4355112) here but it got dead. Please let me know the reasons why it got dead.



(For benefit of other readers, I think http://www.techieapps.com/googles-new-feature-data-locking-o... is what the OP's submission linked to.)

I didn't see your story before it was killed, so I can't speak for anyone who actually flagged it. But these are my thoughts:

The article is poorly written. It contains numerous grammatical errors and may have been machine-translated from another language, possibly for SEO purposes.

The article is not very substantive, nor is it very interesting.

I would not have flagged it myself, but I would have downvoted it had I been able to.


It's not dead. It's pining for the fjords.

Sometimes, especially with new users, these things just happen. Develop a bit more Internet points and you wont hit the spam filter as much, I don't think.

Also note that I remember hearing that links to certain domains get flagged automagically.

Finally, in the future email an admin instead of posting an Ask thread about these types of issues.




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