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endianswap on Jan 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Hellbanning unacceptable

Thank you, I have turned this option on to try it out. I do have an immediate question though: what does it mean if a thread on Recent, for example, is marked as dead?

eropple on Jan 18, 2012 [–]

Generally, it's because it got duped or otherwise hit a spam filter.

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