Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?

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I've noticed a lot more dead comments lately in cases where the person is writing reasonable comments. You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples.Take this thread as an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818698The OP has a new account but all his replies are within the guidelines.Here's another account with a dead comment in that thread. Most of their comments, while brief, seem perfectly reasonable. The account is 2 years old but most comments are dead https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=josefritzishereIn this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167) all of this user's (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=backlava12) comments were marked as dead. The user has an established account and all comments seemed within guidelines.Has anyone else noticed this more recently? Is it perhaps a result of trying to identify AI-bot accounts?

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发布时间：2026/9/24 02:15:50

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