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Posting nothing but links to your own blog is a classic rookie mistake. If you do that your posts are automatically [dead].

Post some links to somebody else's blog, write some comments, get your karma up to 100 or so. Very simply, be part of the community and not just here to extract attention.

Turn on the "showdead" flag on your profile and you will get more insight into all the people who go straight to [dead].

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Actually, I've noticed that there's a lot of hype here when some people share blog content. So the community is more interested in what others recommend than in personal posts. I understand.

It's more that a personal post may or may not be interesting to even one other person, but a post that somebody else recommended was interesting to at least one other person. And that's a big gap!

I just checked and saw that my posts weren't flagged with "dead" :) That's good.

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