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For strange reasons, the archive link to that very interesting story was flagged yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554271 https://news.ycombina
by hbbio 4y ago
For strange reasons, the archive link to that very interesting story was flagged yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33554271
- shp0ngle 4y agoI think all archive links are auto-flagged, I guess as spam prevention.
- xdavidliu 4y agoto clarify, auto-flagged when submitted as top-level posts, not when submitted as comments.
- matjet 4y agoCan someone please elaborate on the relationship between archive links and spam? Why is this particular auto-flagging done?
- nkurz 4y agoI don't think it's true that archive links are auto-flagged. I think [flagged] always indicates that it was flagged by a human: almost always a user, but occasionally a moderator. Does anyone have evidence that would contradict this? There are some things that are automatically [dead], though. Here's a post by Dan from earlier this year explaining some of the inner-workings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273707 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273707
- codetrotter 4y ago> I think all archive links are auto-flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=archive.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=archive.org Plenty archive links not flagged. I think the hypothesis that archive links are auto-flagged is likely incorrect
- shp0ngle 4y agoOkay. Ignore then. Hypothesis proven wrong
- pvg 4y agoBecause it's essentially every variety of HN dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33549059 and is now on the front page twice. Flaggers had it right as is usually the case.