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Why is it taken down?

Someone with a 3 min old account posted a threatening message unrelated to any ongoing discussions.

3m old accounts can't flag (a certain karma level is needed to be able to flag).

An unrelated threatening comment would have gotten the unrelated comment killed, but not the main posting.

If the main posting was flagged, that is because some number of users with enough karma to flag clicked the "flag" link on the post.

Maybe that is the case, but they did not flag it, they posted a message with several violent keywords and the post was immediately flagged. It seemed different from normal flagged posts because all of the reply buttons disappeared and as I hit reply on a comment I was in the process of writing, I got the message "You can no longer reply in this post" or something to that effect. I looked at other currently flagged posts and this seemed atypical. You can still reply within the flagged posts comment section. I assumed it was some sort of auto moderation action.

SARS-CoV2 is in the title, that may be enough for being taken down automatically to avoid flamewars.

The reply buttons likely disappeared because it was also made "dead". Looking it up in your profile it shows "[flagged] [dead]". As to why it was made dead, I do not know.

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