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Re:Google’s become an obsessive stalker by cynicalkane on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:24PM (#12501321)
It's strange that yummyfajitas' post is flagged and killed, presumably for asking a legitimate question in a sarcastic way that rubbed some biased and oversensitive moderator the wrong way.

Contrast to this post, which accuses of him of being "one of them", presumably part of a conspiracy to spread apologia for poor food choices on a hacker interest forum!

An absurd claim, insulting, illogical, of no service to the conversation, but remaining alive and upvoted. We can see further content-free insults in replies to this post. This is the first time I've seen a post killed for reasons that are obviously wrong. In addition, they are wrong in a dangerous way, killing mere rhetorical sarcasm while allowing actual insults, of negative worth, to run wild.

Re:Google’s become an obsessive stalker by DanBC on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:29PM (#12501353)
> oversensitive moderator the wrong way.

Moderators didn't touch his post. His post was downvoted by users, and flagged by users.

I'm not a mod, so I don't know this, but it's pretty clearly what happened.

If you think it shouldn't be dead you should click the timestamp and then click the [vouch] link.

Re:Google’s become an obsessive stalker by cynicalkane on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:58PM (#12501932)
Thanks, I didn't know about the flag/kill procedure or the vouch link.