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Not sure why this got killed (dead in HN terms) but I vouched for it.

Over half this person's comments (the Josh-pdap person I mean) have been flagged.

Not sure if this is some false positive on anti-spam (new account, lots of comments in a short time on a single story) or if it's someone with a vendetta. @dang this is a little weird...

(I know, this site doesn't have magic @, but also i think the site moderator probably has scripts searching for mentions/summons anyway. I would anyway...)

The comments weren't flagged. HN's software has other kinds of filters too, and comments by brand new accounts are treated a little more skeptically. Fortunately users had vouched* for all but two of josh-pdap's comments by the time I saw them. I restored the other two and marked the account legit.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Yeah, all of the new comments from the account are dead. I think creating a new account, posting an article, and posting a handful of comments looks a lot like spam to HN. I've vouched for the comments, but would definitely recommend emailing the admins.

Josh, I can't reply to you directly, but yeah... you can see the comments, but most people can't, unless they have enabled "showdead" in their preferences.

Thanks! It wasn't me who posted the article, but I agree with the theory that it's likely some well-meaning "new account spam prevention" thing.

Half of josh's comments show up as dead, so maybe you and others who can, look around and vouch for them as well. There's something nefarious going on...

What do you mean? I can still see it, but you can't?

Thank you.

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