FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam Bankman-Fried

Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by shp0ngle on Saturday November 12, 2022 @06:38AM (#33572164)

I think all archive links are auto-flagged, I guess as spam prevention.

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Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by xdavidliu on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:29AM (#33572423)

to clarify, auto-flagged when submitted as top-level posts, not when submitted as comments.

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Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by matjet on Saturday November 12, 2022 @07:52AM (#33572560)

Can someone please elaborate on the relationship between archive links and spam? Why is this particular auto-flagging done?

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Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by nkurz on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:07AM (#33572677)

I don't think it's true that archive links are auto-flagged. I think [flagged] always indicates that it was flagged by a human: almost always a user, but occasionally a moderator.

Does anyone have evidence that would contradict this?

There are some things that are automatically [dead], though. Here's a post by Dan from earlier this year explaining some of the inner-workings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273707

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Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by codetrotter on Saturday November 12, 2022 @08:33AM (#33572884)

> I think all archive links are auto-flagged

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=archive.org

Plenty archive links not flagged. I think the hypothesis that archive links are auto-flagged is likely incorrect

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Re:FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing profile of Sam B... by shp0ngle on Sunday November 13, 2022 @03:19AM (#33581106)

Okay. Ignore then. Hypothesis proven wrong

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