Comment by mindcrime
6 days ago
Nothing weird about it. The HN guidelines[1] make it clear, IMO, that while some self-promotion is fine, the intent here is NOT to use the site primarily (or exclusively) for self-promotion. The account that submitted the userplane.io link had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io. What do you expect to happen?
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.
> After a few more experiences like that, I've mostly stopped posting because it doesn't feel like the effort is worth it
Ironically this is exactly the wrong response. You should post more, but more stuff that's simply intellectually interesting, and not just to promote your own stuff. But if your only reason for being here is self-promotion, then you're right... not worth it. shrug
> had only ever submitted two links, and both were to userplane.io
That doesn't appear to be correct. The account's public submission history shows multiple submissions beyond userplane.io. Here's the submission history for reference:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wizenheimer
Edit: Looks like my original comment was flagged too, woah
You're right, I was looking at submissions for userplane.io[1] and over-fixated on it only being submitted twice. My mistake. Nonetheless, the basic principle is the same. Looking at their submission history it appears to be almost all self-promotional and correspondingly many of the submissions are [dead]. As far as I can tell, that's what happens here. (aside: I'm just commenting based on observation of the years, I'm not anybody "official" here or anything).
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=userplane.io
> Looks like my original comment was flagged too
Self-linking via sockpuppet accounts isn’t welcome here, especially when it’s as off-topic as yours, and it’s no surprise our community mass-flagged you. Email the mods for further guidance if you find this outcome objectionable; they’re more adept at offering counsel on how to participate at HN as a community contributor rather than as a self-promoter.
10 months ago, you commented on your own post; then, 18 days ago, you linked your own work in a general Show HN post. Given your account age, extremely low karma, and total absence of comments on anyone else’s posts for ten months in between two self-links, one can reasonably consider your account to be ‘solely here for the marketing clicks’ which would lead users to flag your submissions at a higher rate than average, as you’ve discovered.
If you stop posting self-links for the next ten months and show steady participation in other people’s posts throughout that time — without referring to ‘my work/project/site’ in literally every single comment, as some have tried before you — then when you post a Show HN in ten months, users will likely not flag you for spamming us with ‘look at me! look at me! look at me’ posts (and if they do, you can reasonably ask the mods to inflag it, and they might do so!). But the fly-by-night forum spam your account history reveals is so passé and you’ve only made yourself less welcome here by insisting that you haven’t broken any rules, rather than adapting to the ongoing participation behaviors expected of submitters.
Either genuinely invest time and energy into this community or move on.