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Would anyone care to also vouch for Animats top level comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915372

Would anyone care to also vouch for Animats top level comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915372 ) - I have as it appeared to be flagged dead for no good reason ( I suspect a super user might have fat fingered another intended action ). Seems bad form to kill a good faith comment made with effort, at least disagree or counter, etc.

Jtsummers 2y ago
I also vouched, but it's not [flagged] and it's weird because he's not been banned (check his history, dang is good about telling people he's banning them, especially people who have been on the site and active for years). I suspect he triggered one of the filters or something. EDIT: @defrost one of those links caused your comment to become [dead], I think it was the tamu one but I'm not certain. I did mail the mod about it though and Animats comment is live again. EDIT AGAIN: dang responded. It was the tamu.edu link, somehow that domain had ended up as a spam domain. Animats' comment had been restored by vouches.
- defrost 2y ago
  It is weird - no obvious swear words, etc ... .. and none of the links appear to trigger a dead status. aaaannnd it's back. Odd. @Jtsummers - Interesting, I believe you, I didn't see it, it probably triggered a "shadow dead" condition.
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walterbell 2y ago
> Seems bad form to kill a good faith comment made with effort, at least disagree or counter, etc, If there were multiple fictional social media lobbying teams, which did not have continuous hourly coverage, then downvoting bots could be used during short intervals between time zone work hours.
- Jtsummers 2y ago
  You can tell if something was auto-killed or flag-killed by if it is [flagged][dead] or just [dead]. In this case, Animats' comment was not [flagged] which suggests either moderator action (unlikely, it was instant I saw it at 0 minutes and it was dead), a banned account (not in this case, check his history), or a spam or content filter.
  - walterbell 2y ago
    Thanks, good to know.

Jtsummers 2y ago

I also vouched, but it's not [flagged] and it's weird because he's not been banned (check his history, dang is good about telling people he's banning them, especially people who have been on the site and active for years). I suspect he triggered one of the filters or something. EDIT: @defrost one of those links caused your comment to become [dead], I think it was the tamu one but I'm not certain. I did mail the mod about it though and Animats comment is live again. EDIT AGAIN: dang responded. It was the tamu.edu link, somehow that domain had ended up as a spam domain. Animats' comment had been restored by vouches.

defrost 2y ago
It is weird - no obvious swear words, etc ... .. and none of the links appear to trigger a dead status. aaaannnd it's back. Odd. @Jtsummers - Interesting, I believe you, I didn't see it, it probably triggered a "shadow dead" condition.
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walterbell 2y ago

> Seems bad form to kill a good faith comment made with effort, at least disagree or counter, etc, If there were multiple fictional social media lobbying teams, which did not have continuous hourly coverage, then downvoting bots could be used during short intervals between time zone work hours.

Jtsummers 2y ago
You can tell if something was auto-killed or flag-killed by if it is [flagged][dead] or just [dead]. In this case, Animats' comment was not [flagged] which suggests either moderator action (unlikely, it was instant I saw it at 0 minutes and it was dead), a banned account (not in this case, check his history), or a spam or content filter.
- walterbell 2y ago
  Thanks, good to know.