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by vaultboy21 4785 days ago
..i posted this yesterday under a diferent account but it was apparently removed, almost immediately. hopefully the same doesn't happen again.

edit: for convenience, clickable link to image above http://i.imgur.com/ZCR2hun.jpg
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ScottWhigham 4785 days ago
I'd almost guarantee that, if you posted the same thing (title + content), it was flagged like crazy (and that's why it was gone so quickly). I remember reading that the flag system weights flags heavier that are received within x minutes of the article being posted. In other words, if an article gets two flags in 20 minutes that may be fine. But if another article gets two flags in the first minute, it will be killed (or something to that effect).

This title and this post - it's just full of overly dramatic language choices. Make your case like a normal person and see how the community reacts to that.

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DanBC 4785 days ago
Do you have show dead turned on? Try turning it on and searching for the item. Maybe it got marked as dead. Maybe it just got flagged to death.

Meta stuff is often killed quickly.

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vaultboy21 4785 days ago
within a minute or two after posting it disappeared off the 'new' page. not sure what would have been the cause but i don't believe flagging would have caused that.
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