HN's software contains spam filters and similar things that automatically kill certain posts. Those get marked as [dead] and removed from public view. [dead] posts are visible only to users who have 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile.
Other posts that have been heavily flagged by users get marked as [flagged][dead]. Those have been killed by user flags, not software.
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What do you mean by that?
Broken link detectors?
I don't get it.
HN's software contains spam filters and similar things that automatically kill certain posts. Those get marked as [dead] and removed from public view. [dead] posts are visible only to users who have 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile.
Other posts that have been heavily flagged by users get marked as [flagged][dead]. Those have been killed by user flags, not software.
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