Scripting.com has a unique relationship with HN - Dave Weiner often submits directly, and an article I submitted after him doesn't show up in my list of submissions. Discussions in which he joins sometimes take on their own flavor.
The "Windows Phone without Google" Editorial seems likely to foster partisan debate rather than foster discussion.
"Good News for Gmail users" is blogspam.
There may be a golden nugget in your links. But nothing really pops out. What I will say is that given your karma, people may be following you more closely because of the weight which it can give your posts - I have seen some evidence of this. What you submit may be getting quick attention, and at a certain karma threshold flagging a new submission may be sufficient to kill it - I have seen some evidence of this as well.
Find something really good to submit from an obscure corner of the web. Not the usual suspects. Not linkbait. Not blogspam. Then you can test your theory. Cringly or NY Magazine or Harpers aren't candidates.
So when you reach a certain (unspecified) karma level, the quality of your submissions stops being judged by HN readers and starts being judged by HN admins? And in twenty-plus cases they consistently found my submissions wanting, every time? Wanting so much that they needed to be filtered out before other HN users could even see them?
If that sounds reasonable to you, you've found a friendly place here, I guess. To me it sounds bizarre.
Find something really good to submit from an obscure corner of the web. Not the usual suspects. Not linkbait. Not blogspam. Then you can test your theory.
My submissions included stuff I wrote myself, which is by definition "not the usual suspects."
Look at this piece, for instance, which I submitted:
Is this blogspam? Is this linkbait? I would argue it's an original discussion of an issue that was much debated among HN readers at the time. You may agree or disagree with its premise, but I cannot see how you could classify it as cheap.
The Slate article was already submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5079680
Scripting.com has a unique relationship with HN - Dave Weiner often submits directly, and an article I submitted after him doesn't show up in my list of submissions. Discussions in which he joins sometimes take on their own flavor.
The "Windows Phone without Google" Editorial seems likely to foster partisan debate rather than foster discussion.
"Good News for Gmail users" is blogspam.
There may be a golden nugget in your links. But nothing really pops out. What I will say is that given your karma, people may be following you more closely because of the weight which it can give your posts - I have seen some evidence of this. What you submit may be getting quick attention, and at a certain karma threshold flagging a new submission may be sufficient to kill it - I have seen some evidence of this as well.
Find something really good to submit from an obscure corner of the web. Not the usual suspects. Not linkbait. Not blogspam. Then you can test your theory. Cringly or NY Magazine or Harpers aren't candidates.