And, what the fuck, I went up to the 800 newest submission without finding a single flagged but not yet dead submission???

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altairprime 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I tend to report by email rather than flag when something is egregious, because a single user’s flag tends to have no effect, and /new is so incredibly prolific right now that the chances of enough users flagging something that it gets marked [flagged] rather than simply never reaching the front page at all is vanishingly small.

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brudgers 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In my experience “[flagged]” does not appear until a submission is dead.

But that’s just my experience.

	▲	g-b-r 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, if they do get flagged [flagged] alone is shown, initially. And you can't vouch for them until they're dead, by the way, another nice detail (in the meanwhile they are removed from the front pages).

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bediger4000 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Click on your user ID on this comment. Is the "showdead" pulldown set to "yes"? If it's not set to "yes" HN doesn't show you any "[dead]" submissions.

I recommend setting "showdead" to "yes". You see the damndest things.

	▲	g-b-r 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to write about dead submissions. It's flagged but not dead submissions that I can't find.