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It is an anti-spam "feature", basically if a spammer can't tell he is being auto banned he won't try to get around the block. Not sure why you got picked up by the filter.

they are marked dead on a post by post basis, unless (i believe) the account has a history of only posting spam links.

In this case, your link is a duplicate of an earlier/more popular post. So it got auto-deaded

Uh? Is that new? Whenever I posted something already there I got diverted to it. And I believe the older submission got an extra point. That was cool.

Maybe it's different when the older post was marked as being dead? But I hope there isn't such a lack of humour on HN.

right... now this submission is visible again. weird. maybe I need new glasses. :p

check out http://xycombinator.com though