Ask pg: What's up with the randomly [dead] comments?

43 points by pygy_ 15y ago ↗ HN

Every day I see articulate, polite and relevant posts being flagged dead for no apparent reason. One of these posts was by jashkenas in a thread about CoffeeScript (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2503653) I've added other examples below.

Is this a misbehaving bot or a rogue moderator with an happy trigger?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582372

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566826

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566797

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wladimir 15y ago ↗

Another example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567191

pygy_ 15y ago ↗

BTW, none of these people are dead banned. All of these cases are one shot dead posts.