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AFAIK the site itself, and mods (unknown who they are besides pg really) kill posts at their own whim. Flagging is one signal for that. Of course, you can just
by ehsanu1 13y ago
AFAIK the site itself, and mods (unknown who they are besides pg really) kill posts at their own whim. Flagging is one signal for that. Of course, you can just wait for the passage of time, which will "kill" any post on the front page eventually.
- wfunction 13y agoI'm pretty sure I've seen posts pretty much Dead On Arrival though... I don't think the mods are monitoring the Newest page 24/7?
- itafroma 13y agopg has mentioned[1] that there are certain banned sites: if a submitted story is from one of them, presumably it is killed immediately automatically. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502382
- ehsanu1 13y agoThat's what I meant by "the site iteslf", sorry I wasn't clear. There's definitely some automated spam-detection, and voting circle detection, which auto-bans some posts.