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So then delete it Dang. I've seen you take more action on lesser rule violations.

• dang 6y ago
  This is standard HN moderation. What exactly have you seen? We don't delete things outright on HN unless the author asks us to (there have been perhaps half a dozen exceptions to that in the 13 years and 23M posts of the site, usually for legal reasons). The most we would do is 'kill' a post, which means anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile can still read it. The GP post was actually in that state because of user flags, but I unkilled it in order to reply. When I do that, I usually leave the comment unkilled as a courtesy to users who don't have 'showdead', so they can see what I was replying to.