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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by r721 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:18AM (#38412338)
Look at 2nd and 3rd page of /newest right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?next=38412074&n=31
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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by firebaze on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:20AM (#38412350)
Sure, but to be frank, most of it deserves to be flagged (blogspam, tutorials, App-Store promo links and so on).
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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by r721 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:35AM (#38412409)
I mostly agree (just two posts I upvoted got flagged), but still this is pretty unusual (I think more flags needed for [flagged][dead] than just for [flagged], and nothing on those two pages is marked [flagged] without [dead]).

Maybe some user got "helper mod" status, and a flag power with more weight or something.

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Re:80% of /Newest [Flagged][Dead]? by yorwba on Saturday November 25, 2023 @04:52AM (#38412482)
> more flags needed for [flagged][dead] than just for [flagged]

In my experience flagging stuff, once the flag threshold is reached, it goes straight to [flagged][dead]. If you see something that's [flagged] but not [dead], it got revived somehow.

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