Please just email us ([email protected]) when something like this happens.
Moderators didn't see these submissions or if we did, we didn't know why this project or incident was significant or important.
Now we've seen it, we've boosted the first submission of the incident onto the front page, and updated the URL and title to the most up-to-date/complete page about the incident.
The reason the submissions were being killed is that the GitHub account's address had been banned on HN due to previously being submitted by spam bots.
Moderators didn't see these submissions or if we did, we didn't know why this project or incident was significant or important.
Now we've seen it, we've boosted the first submission of the incident onto the front page, and updated the URL and title to the most up-to-date/complete page about the incident.
The reason the submissions were being killed is that the GitHub account's address had been banned on HN due to previously being submitted by spam bots.