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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by EwanToo on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:36AM (#3460151)
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).
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by Natsu on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:42AM (#3460163)
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

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by user24 on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:44AM (#3460165)
I'm guessing the dupe filter doesn't check [DEAD] links
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by Natsu on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:53AM (#3460184)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by pygy_ on Friday January 13, 2012 @08:27AM (#3460430)
Or upvote the killed story, sending the vote to /dev/null.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by yanw on Friday January 13, 2012 @07:03AM (#3460200)
Someone is suggesting that HK auto-kills .co.ke links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460186
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link... by dspillett on Friday January 13, 2012 @09:16AM (#3460563)
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.
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