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Ask YC: Is [dead] censorship excessive?
I just noticed we have some new properties of dead stories, like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348974
Not only is the once-top story dead (hidden from people who haven't opted into seeing dead stories), but my upvotes seem to be disregarded, new comments are disabled, and the story URL has been stripped out.
Isn't this a bit much, considering I've opted into seeing dead stories?
- brk 18y agoNo, it's not too much. Discuss politics elsewhere.
- andreyf 18y agoIt doesn't necessarily have to be a story about politics... the example was just the latest one I saw. I'm just curious why an opt-in system for dead stories isn't enough?
- pg 18y agoIt's simply that the software doesn't (yet at least) have different categories of deadness for links that are offtopic vs spam. Most dead links are spam, and with those you want to be fairly severe.