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Ok, that statement seems a little misleading. I just turned on showdead. Yes, I can see the text, but the link doesn't seem to be there, so I can't convince mys
by luser001 15y ago
Ok, that statement seems a little misleading. I just turned on showdead. Yes, I can see the text, but the link doesn't seem to be there, so I can't convince myself that the kill was warranted. Am I missing something?
E.g., "[dead] Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, hacker in AT&T iPad case, on Occupy Wall Street (youtube.com)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146776 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146776
Edit: another killed link, "Funding for venture capital industry plunges" from the mercury news. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146633 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146633 The article seems pretty relevant to the audience here.
- tptacek 15y agoYouTube links are auto-deaded. Write a short blog post about the YouTube video, post that, and see if it dies. I'm guessing it won't. I don't know if the Mercury News is auto-deaded, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was.
- pg 15y agoActually neither site is banned.
- pg 15y agoI make the links inactive to ensure spammers get no traffic, and thus give up spamming us. HN gets so much traffic that otherwise they might get a significant amount just from people clicking on the dead link. Anyone who wants to see the url of a story can see it on the edit page, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3146776 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=3146776 As for your specific examples, the first was killed because that user is banned from submitting, and the second I killed myself because when I tried the link it was broken; it's since been fixed so I unkilled it.
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