There's been lots of submissions with different headlines, it seems any submission to the URL gets killed immediately. I assume it's a spam filter in action (and it's actually doing it's own job of keeping 50 copies of the same story from appearing).

Which is weird in and of itself. Normally, submitting the same thing would get the first copy upvoted.

Just how were all those submissions bypassing that process?

EDIT: Here's the first link to it. It's the only submission by someone who joined over a year ago who has no comments and the default 1 karma. And it has an editorialized headline. I bet it would only take one flag to kill something like that. Then everything else would be marked as a dupe of something dead....

So much for "Don't be evil": How Google is doing evil in Kenya (co.ke)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459756

I'm guessing the dupe filter doesn't check [DEAD] links

You might be right. It might just auto-kill instead. Might be worth looking at the Arc source, but I'm about out of time right now.

Or upvote the killed story, sending the vote to /dev/null.

Someone is suggesting that HK auto-kills .co.ke links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460186

To verify that, rehost the story under a completely different TLD (adding links back to the original source and an explanation, of course, otherwise you might just look like any other blog-spam content farmer), and see if it gets accepted that way.