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Ask PG: Do comments from new users get auto-killed too easily?
1 point by d_r on Aug 2, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Some comments that definitely aren't spam earn the status of 'dead.' For example:

https://qht.co/item?id=1567347

https://qht.co/item?id=1566744

Those posts seem to have two things in common:

* they are both from new users with low karma

* they both contain links.

Is there an auto spam-killing function on a rampage? :-)



It looks like both those are users that got killed, their comments after that point may be 100% on-topic and legit but if they don't do something to ask for re-instatement of their accounts anything they do will be automatically killed as well.




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