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There is another response to this comment that is marked as dead within one minute of posting, and I'm trying to understand why. Here is the entire comment:
by hirundo 6y ago
There is another response to this comment that is marked as dead within one minute of posting, and I'm trying to understand why. Here is the entire comment:
> BB is more an art than a sport
Well, the Mr. Olympias were some of the strongest men in history.
Ronnie Coleman was doing leg press reps in the 2,300 pound range, and he admitted after retirement wishing that he had gone heavier. His dumbbell presses over 200 pounds at 10+ reps per set is incredible. He had safety spotters in case the equipment broke bolts, not because he failed lifts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMaI63H9hc
The only person on the Terminator movies sets who could lift the gatling gun was Arnold.
How does a comment like this get killed within a minute? It's not the only such example I've seen today. The comment isn't particularly brilliant, but it is somewhat relevant and not at all nasty.
Is someone with multiple accounts running a kill-the-comment script, or is there an automated HN rule that could be doing this? Or is it just that five random viewers had a beef with it within a minute and I'm overthinking it?
- leshow 6y agoWhile some bodybuilders are incredibly strong, they train differently than strongmen do in a lot of ways. The most obvious thing is that bodybuilders do more reps (further away from a 1 rep max) and do more exercises for smaller bodyparts like biceps/triceps/shoulders/calves/etc. Sure, there are a few (very few) bodybuilders that can deadlift 700lbs (with straps, belts, and whatever else) but strongmen regularly deadlift much much more than that. I think the record is close to 1100 lbs.
- detaro 6y agoone look at the users comment history tells you they are probably perma-banned and occasionally get vouched by users - which you could have done instead of reposting the comment.
- hirundo 6y agoI did vouch, and I've been doing that a lot. But I look back after vouching and it's never resurrected.
- samatman 6y agoHN serves static pages with no cache invalidation, if you just use the back button, you get the same page you were just looking at. Ctrl/Cmd-R will get you back in sync.
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- simonbarker87 6y agoThat comment is back and I have responded to it, it’s a valid point but doesn’t disprove BB is an art
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoTo mark a comment as dead, only one user needs to flag it, I believe. All it takes is one user to disagree enough. I've had upvoted comments flagged because there was one user who disagreed enough with it and it was about controversial issues.
- ThrowawayR2 6y ago[dead] usually means the user themselves deleted it, I think. I flag spam comments routinely and it definitely takes more than one user flag to get a comment to the [flagged] state where text is hidden.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoMaybe more flag it then if the opinion be sufficiently controversial. It was upvoted, however, but it's probably because it's a polarizing opinion that some very much agree with, and others very much dislike.