Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute

Posted by _ananos_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just published a blog post -- when I am logged in I get the entry appearing in the <new> section, but when I log out, I don't see it at all -- I asked a colleague to check, and it seems it got flagged as [dead]. Can you help me understand what was wrong so that it doesn't happen again?

thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by jjgreen on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:32AM (#47362611)

That "autodead" is usually for sites which require login (and no workaround), heavily spammy sites or from new users. None of those seems to be the case, may be worth emailing the HN admins. I've vouched in the meantime.

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by cebert on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:54AM (#47362742)

I have also seen people auto dead because they only promote their own blog or website repetitively.

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by jjgreen on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:27AM (#47362972)

Likewise, but usually when the user only posts links, few comments. But the OP is a regular commenter and this only their second submission. Looks unusual to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by _ananos_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:35AM (#47362629)

thanks for your comment & suggestion!

I'll drop the HN admins an email to make sure I'm not missing anything.

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by genezeta on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:44AM (#47362692)

Ok, I vouched too and now it's not [dead].

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by _ananos_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:55AM (#47362749)

indeed! thanks for that. Could it be a malformed SEO/robots whatever these things are called from our website?

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by genezeta on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:18AM (#47362908)

If I had to guess, I'd say the submission title is not very good, not very descriptive. Not only that, but you submitted it with a title that is different from the title on the site. That's usually not a good idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Uploaded a post and it was [dead] within a minute by _ananos_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:53AM (#47363193)

thanks, good to know!

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