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they are marked dead on a post by post basis, unless (i believe) the account has a history of only posting spam links. In this case, your link is a duplicate o
by throwaway32 15y ago
they are marked dead on a post by post basis, unless (i believe) the account has a history of only posting spam links.
In this case, your link is a duplicate of an earlier/more popular post. So it got auto-deaded
- mrpixel 15y agoUh? Is that new? Whenever I posted something already there I got diverted to it. And I believe the older submission got an extra point. That was cool. Maybe it's different when the older post was marked as being dead? But I hope there isn't such a lack of humour on HN.