What you don&#x27;t see in the history are the hundreds of submissions that have been killed by flagging. The most common scenario I&#x27;ve seen is that this link is submitted as the first submission from a newly-created account. My guess is that it&#x27;s used by some kind of automated spamming software to test whether account creation was successful.<p>This submission fits that pattern: newly-created user with no comments; this is their only submission:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=manojgajavelli" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;user?id=manojgajavelli</a>