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When enough users flag the post in question or a moderator does it themselves.

I can bet that ironically, this post (and mine) will end up [flagged][dead].

Please prove me wrong here.

"[flagged]" is only displayed if an article is flagged by users.

Articles killed by a moderator, or killed automatically (due to triggering the spam filter, or the user/domain being previously banned) only display "[dead]".

A submission can also just disappear completely.

As a note submissions from green accounts (not sure if this is universal) start dead.

Most of the many submissions I see from newly created accounts are not dead. As far as I know, the only accounts that are banned from the start are those that looked suspicious to the spam filter.

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