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Comment by wlesieutre | Hacker News Reader

Why did this get [flagged]? Is that solely user reports? It seems like a good link.

I would also like to know what this means. I'm the author of the post, by the way. When I submitted the link I found out that it had already been submitted.

It is a good link! There's a problem, but it has nothing to do with the site or the article or its author.

It looks like there's some issue with this user's submissions https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rudi-rau

what is "some issue"? looks fine to me

If you've got 'showdead' on you can see lots of previous submissions marked 'dead'.

None of them look obviously inappropriate but maybe the algorithm sees something I can't. There is a high-ish submission frequency (2-3 per day).

Perhaps they're purchasing upvotes?

The posting account probably triggered some kind of spam classifier. No comments and a bunch of submissions in relatively quick succession.

At work I got: Cyber Security - Web URL Blocked

Which might be related?

I'm the author of the post. Could you help me figure out what is triggering the warning?

I don't get a lot of info, but the URL (*.xyz) is kind of odd and might be the issue?

Weird, I don't see why a whole TLD would be blocked. Even Alphabet uses it!

I chose it because .io was way too expensive for my student budget and xyz looked cool.

I hate to say this, but on the server I manage at my day job, I've never, ever seen legitimate email traffic from an .xyz domain, or a .club, .rocks, .work, or any other "gold rush" TLD. Nothing but snowshoe spam/phishing/malware, to the point that my policy is "block on sight."

I got the same from work VPN.

My work doesn't like most URLs with xyz TLDs.

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