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You may be correct, but I doubt it's due to moderators abusing their power. HN has an automated moderation system that is pretty arbitrary. It applies pretty heavy penalties to articles that have too many comments, or posts with certain keywords (like "nsa" and possibly "bitcoin".) Plus there is a regular spam filter that might be less than perfect, and I don't think the posts it filters are shown '[dead]'.



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