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Ask HN: Why don't you ban the dead link forever?

3 pointsby thepanisterabout 16 years ago
Hey,<p>I notice that dead links can be submitted over and over again!<p>For example, someone out there keeps sending the Google mozzila homepage. Like here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=505915<p>If an entry is submitted as dead, do you block the link forever, or you just allow it to be submitted over and over again, and abuse us?<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: If someone submits a link, and you mark it as dead because it's spam, then why don't you make a technique that in case another user submits the same link again, the entry becomes dead automatically?<p>Also why don't you monitor a "high risk users" with many spam entries? Such users are more likely to be posting spam, so monitoring them - maybe automatically - you will reduce the spam flow here.<p>Also consider users with no history record as a potential spammers.<p>Thanks.

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alecstabout 16 years ago
I would imagine that the data on the page could change, and therefore it would be irresponsible to assume that the link once bad is always bad.
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thepanisterabout 16 years ago
I really wish that pg checks this entry out, because I am tired of the spam on this website - although it's relatively low.<p>check this out! <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506273" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506273</a><p>I feel that there is no spam protection here!