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How many current dead links are pure spam and/or harmful? [dead] Atomix Virtual DJ Pro v8.0 (forumarabia.com) [dead] [video] Soccer Players Need to Toughen up

• minimaxir 12y ago
  The first one is literally piracy, half of those are blogspam, the other half are videos which are very unsuited for HN.
• gus_massa 12y ago
  You can google the title and site, and most of the times you can find the original article. I think that there are very few harmful links, but most of the [dead] articles are blogspam (just copy an article and change the background color), or spam for unrelated topics (do you want to buy real state in New Zealand?) . I also saw a few false positives before, interesting articles in site that usually have low quality articles, or the user is hellbaned by a mistake. If you find something interesting, you can try to contact the moderator: hn@ycombinator.com
  • babuskov 12y ago
    I completely forgot that you can add "site:xyz" to the google search. Thanks.