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Well it seems I was wrong, I just saw an article with a [flagged] indication. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

• SamReidHughes 11y ago
  That means the submission is [dead], killed by user flags. Other submissions might have had users click "flag" but not enough to become [dead].
  • dang 11y ago
    You're right, but it's on our list to start displaying [flagged] whether the post is dead or not, once the flags go beyond a certain threshold. Otherwise things seem inconsistent, because e.g. we don't kill flagged stories if they have a bunch of comments.
  • imarg 11y ago
    Ok, but there is also a [dead] indication. What is the difference?
    • SamReidHughes 11y ago
      My understanding is that since [flagged] is for stuff that was killed by user flags, other dead stuff is dead for some other reason. Like automatic spam detection, [dupe], moderator actions.