Ask HN: why do some non-trollish articles get [dead]ed?

That one got killed automatically because the domain is banned. I think the domain was banned because someone once spammed us with links to it.<p>Another reason non-spam/troll stuff gets killed is because it's a dupe.

I know there is some automatic [dead]ing - I occasionally see [dead] spam submissions that are just a minute old, for example. It's possible that one submission triggered some rule in the filter? (maybe the "crm" in the domain name?)

I've had a couple of my own links marked dead recently. It doesn't really bother me, I just submit stuff I find interesting and if the admins want to kill it they kill it.

Editors will also kill straight up dupes of other stories, or things with no intellectual content (like funny pictures, etc.) A lot of it is arbitrary though, obviously.

I'm going to guess that if enough people flag something, it automatically goes dead, unless perhaps it's received some threshold of upvoting.

I hate when I've commented on something, am being modded up because of my ostensibly good commend, and then the story goes dead....