There is a firehose of the dead submissions and this is a good day today - just about 1 per minute and only 30% are dead. Somedays it's much, much worse.
HN attracts every wannabe out there and there is always a banal spam. So no wonder people don't want^W have time to hand hold anyone.
Just now it's 10 dead of 30, #30 is just '48 minutes ago'.
And rarely I see something that seems very very odd it's dead - although in those cases I usually assume it's just a bunch of bots or people downvoting (vs some kind kf moderator conspiracy)
> Lot of the time it is stuff I'm not surprised is dead.
You can't see something doesn't exist [anymore].