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Nope. Many comments from green accounts get flagged and then auto-killed unless vouched for.

• moralestapia 4mo ago
  To you and other commenters who are missing it ... No green accounts involved here.
  • bjourne 4mo ago
    That doesn't mean the spam filter isn't culpable here - esychology is still a relatively new account.
• yorwba 4mo ago
  This is a green account that got auto-killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304852 This is a green account where someone used the "flag" button to kill it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262928 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262928 Note how the former only says [dead] while the latter is [flagged] [dead].
  • bjourne 4mo ago
    The spam filter does both. You can verify for yourself that flagging a comment most of the time is not enough to kill it.
    • yorwba 4mo ago
      The spam filter influences the number of times a comment needs to be flagged before it becomes [flagged] and gets killed, but if it says [flagged], someone used the "flag" button at least once. Sometimes just downvoting a spam comment is enough to kill it; those just get marked [dead] and not [flagged].