[samstokes]

Without knowing the context, it sounds like you didn't get banned for the content of the posting, but for asking your existing users to come and upvote you en masse. That's generally considered to undesirably skew the voting, and will get detected and flagged.

Maybe if you just re-posted without the appeal to your fans, you'd see how well your product and pitch resonate with the HN community.

[twanschik]

Thanks, we posted it again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978451

[twanschik]

We posted merely 2 weeks ago. So, many HN users could down-vote it because of that. What do you think?

[samstokes]

I don't know, how long were you on the front page before you got taken off? People won't complain about double posting unless they actually saw it the first time!

[6thSigma]

You can't downvote links on HN. You only have to worry about not receiving upvotes.

[twanschik]

Sorry, I meant getting flagged.

[6thSigma]

People flag things with no rhyme or reason I've found. I wouldn't worry about that.

I'd be more worried about getting the domain banned from HN in regards to reposting it. But that probably won't happen unless you do it a lot.