I've been refreshing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891742 every few minutes. A minute ago, the thread was fine. Now, it's marked [flagged][dead]. How is this possible? Shouldn't the thread go through a [flagged] phase before becoming [dead]?
I don't know if anyone other than dang knows the actual details, but it's my belief that it takes a fairly small number of flags to kill a story. If something is controversial enough, I believe it could collect enough flags to go [dead] pretty quickly.
Hmm. Not sure what to tell you. Other than, if you're really interested enough, email dang and see what he has to say. Or hope he wades into this thread.
What was the original link?
"Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency": https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-...
Let's see if this one is flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892278
Yep, this one now flagged. (original in this thread now un-flagged).
Your link does not appear dead to me.
Looks like it got vouched back to life.
I don't know if anyone other than dang knows the actual details, but it's my belief that it takes a fairly small number of flags to kill a story. If something is controversial enough, I believe it could collect enough flags to go [dead] pretty quickly.
This literally happened over the course of, like, 30 seconds, though — and after almost an hour of sitting around unflagged.
Hmm. Not sure what to tell you. Other than, if you're really interested enough, email dang and see what he has to say. Or hope he wades into this thread.