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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by gruez on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:34PM (#15108304)
OT: Anyone know why a comment in this post went dead in less than 4 minutes? It was pretty substantive and didn't contain anything inflammatory, although the author did say he was using a throwaway.

link to comment (you need enable showdead in settings to read it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108272

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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by cuckcuckspruce on Saturday August 26, 2017 @08:59PM (#15108411)
Somebody probably flagged it. It's a new account, so it's likely it could quickly be flagged into oblivion.
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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by grzm on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:03PM (#15108422)
Was the comment ever alive? If the commenter has had other accounts banned, HN sometimes has more thorough methods of banning a user (I suspect by IP, but I'm not sure the details of the implementation). If you think the comment is worthwhile and have enough karma, you can vouch for it.
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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by aaron695 on Saturday August 26, 2017 @09:48PM (#15108602)
New accounts comments can be autoflagged for various reasons.

Vouch for it, as we can see someone has. The system works.

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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by gruez on Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:07PM (#15108880)
>Vouch for it, as we can see someone has. The system works.

Can you even do that? I thought flag/vouch only works for links.

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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by grzm on Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:49PM (#15109012)
As 'aaron695 said, it works for comments as well. If you want to confirm, turn on showdead and view some comments. You should see a vouch link.
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Re:Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Pri... by gruez on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:59AM (#15111275)
yeah, i see it now. you have to click into a comment before it shows up.
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