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fhdkweig a day ago

oh, so when https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html says:

>What does [dead] mean?

>The post was killed by software, user flags, or moderators.

"moderators" isn't referring to just anybody with a downvote capability? They mean just the website owners, e.g. dang, etc.?

john_strinlai a day ago | parent [-]

correct, moderators in that context is dang/tomhow, not just users with downvoting capabilities. user flags will always have [flagged], otherwise downvoting just makes the text gray