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That site has been banned on HN for 7 years, for whatever reason. Posts get autokilled when a site is banned.

You're certainly not a pariah on HN. But would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments? You've done it a lot, and those comments usually get downvoted, which is a correct use of downvotes. Your point of view is as welcome as anyone else's, if you'd express it more substantively.



Hello Dang,

Could you please share more details on sites getting banned? I did a quick glance of the site in question, doesn't see much to get banned.

Thanks


There are lots of reasons why a site might get banned, but the main ones are when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles.

In this case it's hard to say because 2013 was a long time ago. It might have been because someone was oversubmitting or trying to promote the site on HN. That's another reason why we might ban a site.

This site looks like an online magazine focused on the SF Bay Area. When I look at the submissions I see a penchant for sensational titles and a lot of articles that aren't on topic for HN, but also a few articles that would make good HN submissions, except possibly for the titles. Two examples of good ones:

https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden...

https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-g... (good article, bad title)

For that category of site, we generally don't ban the domain, but rather downweight it to countervail the sensationalism. I'll switch this one over.




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