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Added in follow-up - I may have worked out what happened, but I'd still be interested in people's thoughts.

• pavel_lishin 16y ago
  In general, I don't understand why links and submissions on HN go dead. Is it always due to admin intervention?
  • RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
    In general there are a few very good reasons: + It gets flagged by sufficiently many people who believe it to be inappropriate + It comes from a known blacklisted site + It falls foul of behavior most commonly associated with spam. The case in question here is in the last of these. I submitted the comment, realised I'd put it in the wrong place, deleted it, and immediately reposted in a different comment. That's behavior adopted by spammers - posting identical comments in several places in a very short time span. Spending long enough here, and thinking about it carefully, most cases can be analysed and understood.