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Comment by Tabular-Iceberg

21 hours ago

Flagging is one thing, but I assume that there is a human in the loop before a user is put in the dead state.

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tomhow  18 hours ago

There isn't. Almost everything you see that's killed has been put into that state without any moderator action. We review the ones we have time to review but that can be hours or days later, and we don't get to them all because there are so many (though users can vouch them or email us to bring anything to our attention to be reviewed).

Further, even if we leave something dead, it's no indication of any "agreement" or "endorsement" of anything. We're not here to promote any editorial line. All we care about is whether a comment is within the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html