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Hmm, not really related to the story (or HN comment), but I thought HN comments became automatically dead when submitted... [0] I guess someone decided to vouch for this?

Is my guess right? Can someone shed some light on how this is not dead?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ycombinator.com (view it with showdead on)

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You guessed right: someone vouched for this, and it created such a good thread that I think we'll protect this one. Cases like this are one reason why HN's systems are so porous—e.g. submissions to HN posts get autokilled but someone vouched for it so it came back.

Also, allowing weird exceptions keeps things unpredictable, which makes things more interesting.

I don't see any dead comment submissions, just lots of bookmarklet (itself) submissions, the only comments I can find aren't dead.

But perhaps you're right, someone vouched for it, there's enough upvotes someone probably would have?

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