Hashnode and Dev's links are marked [dead] automatically

2 points by proboy 3 years ago | 8 comments

Have a look here (make sure to enable dead posts in your account):

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=hashnode.dev - https://i.imgur.com/joAk5kH.png

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dev.to - https://i.imgur.com/dw06r2Q.png

Almost all the posts from Dev.to and Hashnode are marked [dead], it's like 98%!

Maybe it's because users are promoting their blogs on those two platforms, but why Medium links are okay?

And the most frustrating thing, especially for new HN users, [dead] posts are not visible in HN but are for the user who submitted them, so the user thinks that his submission is visible on HN but it's not.

Am not going to give the mods orders but I think at least I have the right to know if my submission is marked [dead].

What do you guys think about that? Do you know any other links that gets marked [dead] automatically ?

sp332 3 years ago |

You can just write the email in the Contact link at the bottom of the page with questions to the mods. And the reason for not telling the poster that a link is dead is that they will just try to circumvent the block immediately.

proboy 3 years ago | |

I think it's possible to do not block immediately by alerting the user as a first procedure.

A lot if users doesn't know about this, that's why I think it's not right

LinuxBender 3 years ago |

This question could be best answered by Daniel dang, hn @ ycombinator.com. The automated scoring and flagging algorithm's are not publicly available AFAIK.

proboy 3 years ago | |

I just contacted them on that email.

I sent them this submission so they reply here

jonas-w 3 years ago |

May I ask what [dead] means on HN?

proboy 3 years ago |

Look at this user for example, he was posting for a year and guess what, for a year of posting, all of his submissions are dead, without him knowing, only the first 9 submissions from 2021 that are visible, only 9 from ~58 and he keeps posting because he don't know that his submissions are not visible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=alkeshghorpade.me - https://i.imgur.com/Ely4AfP.png

I don't think this is right

sp332 3 years ago | |

From the guidelines:

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

The non-dead posts got two total upvotes.

proboy 3 years ago | | |

Yes I understand that blocking his blog's URL because of promotion is normal, but still, I think he should know about that