Ask pg: What's up with the randomly [dead] comments?

[pygy_]

Every day I see articulate, polite and relevant posts being flagged dead for no apparent reason. One of these posts was by jashkenas in a thread about CoffeeScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503653) I've added other examples below.

Is this a misbehaving bot or a rogue moderator with an happy trigger?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582372

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566826

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566797

[wladimir]

Another example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567191

[pygy_]

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598559 => http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brudgers.

BTW, none of these people are dead banned. All of these cases are one shot dead posts.