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by ssv445 670 days ago
That's an interesting idea. I was trying to post a GitHub repo, which is frequent in posts. Yet I was denied.
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It looks like it is live now.

But the subdomain matches your user name and your account does not have a history of engagement with HN (irrespective of its age). That may correlate with low quality content in general and threrefore there might be a "self-promotion" heuristic in place.

It's not that self-promotion is banned on HN. But using HN only for self-promotion is generally discouraged (or explicitly discouraged) because it sucks up oxygen without much benefit to the community.