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I'm new to hacker news and have not figure out this "dead" feature. What exactly is happening?

• graeme 12y ago
  "dead" means a mod killed a link, comment or even an entire account. You can go to your profile settings and select "showdead" to see dead posts. At it's best, "dead" indicates spam removal, or a shadowban of a spammer. Unfortunately, when it's applied in appropriately, the poster doesn't realize. In this case, there's a comment that I think was removed incorrectly.