HACKER Q&A
📣 adaboese

What does it mean when a post gets flagged?


I noticed my last post got flagged. Is there a way to get more info?


  👤 sp332 Accepted Answer ✓
From the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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.

You're just submitting all of your own blog posts here to drive traffic. Looks spammy.


👤 rolph
blogs often fail here, original technical content is premium. its a 'how to SEO' thing and im bet the biasing is different here, but i know a lot of people who take a very dim view of SEO tactics, its considered gaming a service.

👤 Bostonian
I think it means that N people with sufficient karma (I think N=4) thought your post violated the guidelines of the site.