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Probably kill = hide from front page, blast = hide from all, and nuke = delete from database (maybe soft-delete). Pure speculation though.
by dm2 12y ago
Probably kill = hide from front page, blast = hide from all, and nuke = delete from database (maybe soft-delete). Pure speculation though.
- iancarroll 12y agoKill makes it dead, blast makes it trend down the front page fast, nuke is delete/hide. So I believe.
- dm2 12y agoWhat does "dead" mean?
- aroch 12y ago"dead" on HN is like locking and hiding a thread -- no more voting or commenting and the thread disappears.
- kyrra 12y agodead posts are hidden by default. I believe once you have enough kamra there is a "showdead" option you can enable in your preferences. Dead posts/comments will be marked as [dead], but you can at least still see them.
- ojbyrne 12y agoIf nuke is "delete/hide," then what is "delete?"
- dang 12y ago"Delete" is like "dead", except that the posts aren't visible even if you have showdead turned on. We don't ever delete things unless users ask us to—typically because the window for deleting their own post has expired—and then only when they have a good reason for asking. Otherwise HN's bias is toward preserving history. Coincidentally, I posted something else about "delete" a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975137.