genezeta

People flag posts.

You may think you're following the guidelines but still people won't like what you post and flag your post. It happens. As for why, I cannot tell you why other people do what they do, obviously, but I can guess a bit at some stuff:

1. You are doing self-promotion.

It's not directly against the guidelines, but it's generally not welcome by many. It's not the focus of the site and should be used sparingly. And, looking at your posting history, it's all you do. You're only submitting your own stuff. That is not really well liked around here.

2. It's about LLMs.

Again, it's not against the guidelines. But... it gets tiring. There's a lot of stuff on LLMs lately. And people are starting to get bored with everyone just posting about their particular LLM thing.

Not only that, but sincerely I didn't get what your thing does that is different to the other thousand LLM things posted. You seemed to focus in your explanation on a certain technical point but it doesn't really sound like an interesting thing at all. It's not clear whether your LLM thing is really different or relevant, or if it's just another one but with this particular technical detail.

3. Your text is not compelling.

This is related to the previous paragraph. I can't tell if you wrote what you submitted or if you generated it with an LLM. That would actually be against the guidelines and people would flag your submission.

But even if it isn't, well, it does kind of look like a block of copied and pasted text that an LLM would output. It's boring, also.

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Finally, consider not submitting this. And I mean this "Why did I get flagged?" post here. These meta -posts are really not interesting and will get you flagged again easily. You get flagged? just accept it and continue.

Whatever.

I didn't say a single thing about your application. I do not care one way or the other. I'm just telling you people don't appreciate insistent self-promotion. You do what you want, but you cannot force people to like it.

I'm just telling you. You do things people don't like and people respond by flagging your posts.

And you had already done that a few months ago.

> My last post got flagged where I claimed ...

From a different perspective, your last post, where you were promoting your own application, got flagged.

Yes, this is a fairly normal thing. In fact, if you had read the guidelines, you would have noticed that self-promotion is generally frowned upon in HN. It is not what the site is for.

Now, submitting again to protest that you were flagged and then just promoting the app a bit more, sounds like another thing that people will not like. So you'll probably get flagged again.

Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong, probably 3-4 times.

Most of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet I've read multiple times. I've read Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon a bunch of times too.

All of William Gibson. Miyazaki's Nausicaä of The Valley of Wind, in various languages. Stephen Cosgrove's Muffin Muncher, I couldn't say how many times I must have read that (It appears they've now changed the title to Muffin Dragon).

I've read The Soul of a New Machine a couple of times too. The Hitchhiker's and Dirk Gently's trilogies a few times.

Stefano Benni's Baol probably half a dozen times. And Acts of The Apostles by John FX Sundman a bunch too. Oh, and a few of Martin Gardner's books. And Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird.

And most probably also many others. Most of my books are now in boxes or have been gifted away, though.

Loads right for me.

I didn't flag it, but... it was the third time you submitted the same thing, wasn't it?

So, directly to a login page. No demo, no explanation, no features, not even a single screenshot, not even a paragraph of text of what it is about, nothing.

Maybe your product is great, maybe even fantastic, but the presentation does not convince me to sign up at all.

Sorry if this sounds harsh; nothing personal.

How many times have you already submitted this in the last month?

Do you think this is the correct way to achieve whatever it is you want to achieve?

Have you read the HN guidelines?

On desktop you can also click on the > icon on the top left part of the map.

What I see now, and it's been like this for a while, is this:

You get the results and they do have direct URLs. But then, if you do some things with the link, e.g. right click to open it in a new tab, it swaps the URL to the indirect one. The idea is that initially you see a normal link, with a normal URL which will be displayed correctly when you hover the mouse over it, but right before you click it, it's swapped for the indirect one.

So, they have been doing stuff like this for a while and it has been somewhat fluid, because the swapping can occur on different events and I have also seen it load with all the links pre-swapped to the indirect ones, sometimes.

So, yes, what you see may be different and you may get the indirect URLs swapped at different stages.

Oh, you mean the guys that make Whiskas?