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Ask HN: Why is my submission dead?

8 points by dbz ↗ HN
Hello everyone. I wasn't sure who to ask- but I just submitted an article and it was automatically killed. Can anyone tell me why? If it helps: My karma is a little over 100, my average is 1.6, and I am over 100 days old. I don't know those influence anything, but those are my "stats." Any answers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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thafman
Dude what did you submit?
RiderOfGiraffes
I assume he submitted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067175

Which I guess linked to this:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/how-to...

It contains no interest for me personally, but I didn't flag it, and that doesn't answer the OP's question.

dbz
Yup. I just submitted that article. It is only the second article I have submitted.
jacquesm
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910

is the list of banned domains, it is not on there.

I checked another tutsplus submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=632213

and it too is dead.

So chances are it is on the banned domains list.

I think it is because tutsplus steals content:

http://blog.tuvinh.com/top-20-mysql-best-practices/

vs

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/top-20-mysql-best-pr...

I think this is the non-syndicated link to the same article:

http://blog.caointeractive.com/how-to-make-all-browsers-rend...

It does contain a link to tutsplus at the bottom.

ntulip
tutsplus steals content? Are you kidding me?
jacquesm
Either that or the other way around, there is no way that those two texts were created independently.
roundsquare
No opinion on who stole from whom, but common, even 5th graders know that when you steal work you make some changes.
jacquesm
Such as the name above the test ;)

Teacher: How come I have two essays from John and none from Bob?

icey
I'm pretty sure that deadlist is out of date now.
yummyfajitas
I'm also curious about this process. I also had a submission killed yesterday, and I can't see an obvious reason.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065167

(How Common Lisp programmers view other languages)

mquander
I didn't flag your submission, but I wouldn't be surprised if others did. People prefer meaty links, and HN gets its share of substantiative Lisp evangelism without needing silly bits of it too.
[dead] hymanroth
On a related note, none of my submissions are accepted any longer.

I suspect this has to do with me getting a bit upset at a wave of down votes for a pretty innocuous comment (I wrote 'applause').

I was wondering if there was a way of getting un-banned?