Recently I became aware of the phenomena of content getting flagged and posts going to '[dead]' state immediately after posting it. You can actually change your HN settings to see those posts.<p>Sure, a lot of them are self-promotions, but there is also a lot of great content that gets lost this way, for seemingly no reason (e.g. I was just following this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808282 when I saw that it got flagged).<p>Just sharing this so people know how to see these posts if they wanted to.
It looks like the linked submission may have been an april fools joke?<p>The question is, can we lower the flag rate for good content that we don't want flagged, without increasing the unflagged rate for bad content that we do want flagged? It's a hard challenge, but the moderators here tend to be good about taking the flags as signals and making their own judgement calls.