Is it possible that other accounts steal submitted links or posts?<p>I just had this experience with my paydevs account:
* On 2022-10-29T12:43:45 I postet <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383563" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383563</a> on my paydevs account, which does not show up in the stream and HN search
* On hour later, on 2022-10-29T13:43:02 the user <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pabs3" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pabs3</a> published the same link with a different title: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383972" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383972</a><p>Is this normal on HackerNews?
I looked at the data and as far as I can tell it was just a coincidence that the other user submitted the same link.<p>We banned your paydevs account though - it's against HN's rules to use the site primarily for promotion (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>), and that account was not only doing that, it crossed the line into what the community here considers spamming. That's why your submission of the link was killed.