Ask HN: Why was my previous submission dead on arrival?

Some URLs are banned.

The link you give here leads nowhere, so it doesn't help anyone to answer your question. Perhaps edit your post to say what your submission was. Then maybe somebody will have an idea.

This was the URI in question:

http://tweetagewasteland.com/2010/08/ive-seen-your-future-an...

There's nothing obviously wrong with the content and the host isn't in the (outdated) list of banend sites ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498910 ).

It opens with a long story about a couple of your friends who've been kicked off a TV show. Down the line you draw some generic internet-related conclusions but your readers probably didn't get that far before flagging it as off-topic.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I have been making the point lately that the stories that are killed -- either by autokill or by editors -- should be updated with a hint about why the kill happened. I don't want to help spammers figure out how to spam HN more. But I am convinced that it's possible to give people who are making legitimate attempts to post an idea about what they did wrong.

The way things are, the leadership of HN is creating a chilling, authoritarian atmosphere. I fear for the future of HN enough to keep making this point.

Actually, this is my site (tweetage wasteland) and I've heard from a couple folks that anytime they try to link to one of my posts, the link disappears. Historically, my posts have gotten some decent traffic and/or responses from this site. Love to get to the bottom of this and get my site off any blacklist. It's just a blog, no weirdness.

I can't reply to you davepell, as your reply here is [dead], but I too would like to get to the bottom of this.