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Ask HN: How can a thread immediately go from unflagged to [flagged][dead]?

9 pointsby 1y ago
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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]?
1y agoHN ↗

Yep, this one now flagged. (original in this thread now un-flagged).

1y agoHN ↗

Your link does not appear dead to me.

1y agoHN ↗

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.

1y agoHN ↗

This literally happened over the course of, like, 30 seconds, though — and after almost an hour of sitting around unflagged.

1y agoHN ↗

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.