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Ask HN: Why do threads die?
I'm wondering if anyone has an answer to my question. An example is currently on the news page:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1179711
I understand there are banned links, so those pages are automatically killed. However, I see this thread was killed without any reason- except for the author wrote the title and text without being very....proper?
Maybe we can start giving reasons (possibly) for closing threads?
- JacobAldridge 17y agoI imagine it was flagged multiple times, and tipped over the flag/vote weight. I'm personally in favour of this system on HN - it may be biased towards threads dying, but I would rather kill some good threads than have a bias that allows off-topic, link-bait etc rising to the top. Of course, I have Show Dead on, so in effect dead threads are just an extra datapoint when I decide whether to read.