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10 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 13 Apr 2023 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread

This is a worthy goal. Good luck. I will be curious to see if you make any progress.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 13 Apr 2023

Thanks. I think it's more likely my bot gets banned there haha

5 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 17 Apr 2023

Seems like my comments on HN are immediately getting shadowbanned. They show up as [dead] when using inkognito:

This is what I posted:

Your post received 1148 sats and 11 comments on https://stacker.news [0]. To claim your sats, reply to this comment with a LN address or invoice [1].

You can create a SN account to obtain a LN address.

[0] #164952 (referral link)

[1] https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-lifecycle/understanding-lightning-invoices

Will contact dang to ask if there is a way to get them to show up or what rules I am breaking.

13 sats \ 4 replies \ @scottathan 17 Apr 2023

Most likely there was some kind of scam detection that got triggered. So many scam bots mentioning Bitcoin exist that they may have a filter for it.

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @ek 17 Apr 2023

Yes, could very well be it. I just sent an email:

To: hn @ycombinator.com Subject: Dead comments from stackernews

Hi Hacker News,

I am the creator behind the recently created "stackernews" account. [0] I am fetching top stories from HN and posting them on https://stacker.news/, a site which is very similar to Hacker News but where upvotes are satoshis. For example, see this post: #164952

I wanted to provide the OP from HN the option to claim these sats. So I thought I would post a comment like this:

Your post received 1148 sats and 11 comments on https://stacker.news [0]. To claim your sats, reply to this comment with a LN address or invoice [1]. You can create a SN account to obtain a LN address. [0] #164952 (referral link) [1] https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pay...

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35595557

However, I have noticed that these comments show up as [dead] in incognito so I think they are getting shadowbanned. Is there something in that comment which is not allowed? If so, I would be very happy to remove it to make the comments show up.

I have no ill intentions with these comments. I only want to provide the OPs the chance to claim these sats (if they want).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stackernews [1] https://stacker.news/hn

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards XXXXXXXXXXX

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @ek 17 Apr 2023

Reply:

Yes, sorry, but you can't post those comments to Hacker News. They're simply off topic.

It's also not in your interest to do so, in my experience; I don't think the community will react well to such posts. For one thing, there's way too much cynicism around cryptocurrency stuff now; for another, they will be interpreted as an ad for your site, which will lead people to use unkind words like 'spam'.

2 sats \ 1 reply \ @scottathan 17 Apr 2023

That's fair

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 17 Apr 2023

Yeah, I replied with:

Okay, I can see how these comments can be considered off topic.

Thanks for the clarification and fast response!

But the part about "not in my interest" sounds like a benevolent dictator. This is why we need nostr.

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 17 Apr 2023

I guess you called it!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 17 Apr 2023

I literally just want to give value back. Kinda ironic that HN doesn't seem to like that, lol

But maybe I just triggered some automatic mechanism. Hopefully dang will understand that these comments have no ill intention.