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> I'd like to know which HN post you're talking about, so I can say exactly what happened.

> I wonder if you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38036236? You'd need to turn showdead on in your profile to see that one.

So, what happened?

Edit: I can't even click the link on the post you mentioned. Is that normal? That seems especially suspect and somewhat closer to censoring opposing views than I've come to expect from you and HN, Dan.

I have showdead enabled.

The link in question:

https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potenti...




So, what happened?

Very likely flagged dead by users, as most things that show up as [flagged][dead]

Is that normal?

It is for dead submissions. Has been the case for ages.


> It is for dead submissions. Has been the case for ages.

For those with showdead enabled, why are links on dead submissions broken? Isn’t that the whole point of showdead, to actually show the post?


I don't know but if I had to guess it's because some of these links could be abusive/harmful or spam. I don't think it makes much difference practically in the cases that they aren't since then it's not hard to recover the link with the info left, if you wanted to.

It doesn't address the specific thing but you can see the broader logic here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...


It was simply flagged by a lot of users.




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