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Seems like the sibling comment also by leafboi shows that HN automatically makes dead, accounts with negative karma.

• surround 6y ago
  leafboi’s account was shadow banned, meaning that any new comments are automatically, immediately marked as [dead].
  • leafboi 6y ago
    I think this is a consequence of negative karma as well. Not sure. If I am shadow banned deliberately by Dang then the commenter above is right.