HACKER Q&A
📣 JonathanBeuys

Do links to Twitter get you shadow banned on HN?


I find it quite useful to put my thoughts on Twitter as it nicely enables you to host a mix of text and images.

But it seems when I do so these days, the posts get shadow banned right away.

What is a good way to deal with this?

  👤 Pakdef Accepted Answer ✓
I don't know but I am shadow banned from posting any links...

edit: looks like my last post got manually approved because it was shadow banned....

👤 compressedgas
I see this as a similar question to the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742746
👤 alpaca128
Did you try linking Nitter instead? Might make a difference.

Either way I'm not a big Twitter fan myself, the text limitation is just pointless and annoying. And the UI doesn't make it any better.

👤 daenney
Afaik no, links to Twitter don't get your submission automatically flagged. I regularly see them, with high upvotes and extensive discussion threads.

But if the content of the tweets aren't considered relevant or likely to lead to healthy discussion folks will probably hit the flag button.

If you push a lot of your own content onto HN to drive engagement, that might certainly land you with a lot of flagged submissions. But I doubt it would result in any problems if you did this a few times a year.

YMMV.

👤 WalterGR
Based on observation, continuously posting content from the same domain or domain+username pair (for some sites such as Twitter and GitHub) will get those posts shadowbanned.

> What is a good way to deal with this?

I’d obviously defer to moderators, but it would seem like behavior that gets posts shadowbanned is behavior that’s not encouraged here.

So…