Ask HN: why did the box.com promotion disappear from HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208972

by Maven911 • 13 years ago

15 8 13 years ago

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Hi,

I am curious why that link that was submitted on HN for 50 gigs free disappeared from HN. I feel it was something useful for many of us.

Are promotions in violation of the rules of conduct ?

johng• 13 years ago

I'm curious about this myself. My paranoid side says because it competes with Dropbox. My sane side says that its still just an advert... but a useful one, since I signed up for box to get it.

jschuur• 13 years ago

Was someone's referral code embedded in the link?

dz0ny• 13 years ago

It was sponsored by Dell, for Dell customers :)

signup/o/dell_50gb_give_get

thoughtcriminal• 13 years ago

It seemed like a great offer, so I snagged it. Dropbox has been a bit sketchy for me lately, so I'm ready to consider alternatives.

benologist• 13 years ago

It really only takes one or two people to flag you to fall down to page 2 after which it is almost impossibly hard to get back onto page 1.

There may be no obvious reason you get flagged.

Danieru• 13 years ago

It only takes a few flags to kill a fresh submission. Anything referral or similar is doing to have a high flag risk.

It may not be a rule violation but HN is supposed to be self moderating. Up and down votes help garner a consensus over encouraged behaviour.

Doing a bit further are flags. I can well see people flagging a promotional code. I and many others come to HN for the discussion and we would be very disappointed if HN become a coupon hub.

amyunus• 13 years ago

Disappeared? I still can find it here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208009

Maven911• 13 years ago

Yeah it came back now

Ask HN: why did the box.com promotion disappear from HN

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