[not_your_vase]

Well, to be fair, what are the chances that a user who has registered a few minutes ago without email with username "createvideoai" or "username998" (just took random spammers from the new page) will submit a non-spam link? It's arguably naive and simple heuristics, but I guess it's a reasonable baseline...

[bookaway]

If you go to the "lists" page there is literally a "noobstories" page, because someone deemed that that would be an interesting filter for some people to explore. What's the point of posting if you're a noob if you know your legit post is going to be auto-killed and no-one is going to see it?

Good-faith posters should know that this is what is happening (assuming the auto-killing is intentional and not a bug) so they can go and try to build enough karma from their comments before posting a story.

[dang]

Stories by new accounts are not all killed automatically. Your own posts make it clear that you know this.

Some such submissions get killed, mostly for reasons related to spam filters. But there's a huge difference between "some" and "all". I'd appreciate it if you'd stop making dramatic "all" claims about what is very much a "some" situation.

Obviously we have no intention of impeding legit users and legit submissions. Legit new users are what keep HN alive. Why would we cut off our own oxygen? The issue is that it's hard to write spam filters that don't produce any false positives. Perhaps you know how to do that; I don't.

If you want to help, vouching for the false positives (i.e. legit submissions that get killed by mistake) is helpful, as is emailing links to [e-mail].