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I think all archive links are auto-flagged, I guess as spam prevention.

• xdavidliu 4y ago
  to clarify, auto-flagged when submitted as top-level posts, not when submitted as comments.
  • matjet 4y ago
    Can someone please elaborate on the relationship between archive links and spam? Why is this particular auto-flagging done?
    • nkurz 4y ago
      I 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 ago
    Okay. Ignore then. Hypothesis proven wrong