And why are submissions marked as being dead by default? I find it hard to believe someone is marking it dead - even this question - within less than three seconds.
I'd rather prefer to be banned instead of wasting my time.
I'd rather prefer to be banned instead of wasting my time.
In this case, your link is a duplicate of an earlier/more popular post. So it got auto-deaded
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.
check out http://xycombinator.com though