<story><title>Tell HN: Someone deleted a submission re Wakemate</title><url></url><text>A few minutes ago I stumbled upon a submission chastising WakeMate for still not shipping. There were 6 comments. I hit refresh and the title changed to [dead] and the submission was removed from the front page. What is going on?&lt;p&gt;At this URL the comments can still be found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358309</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Hacker News is not fair when it comes to YC companies. This would have been a valid post if it concerned some other well-known company. It probably won&apos;t be for Wakemate. I don&apos;t know that it&apos;s Graham killing the stories (there&apos;s a pronounced YC bias here, for obvious reasons, and most of us can &quot;flag&quot;), but that doesn&apos;t matter; the effect is the same.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t like it, but I accept it. There aren&apos;t so many important YC companies right now that this is a real problem. I suggest: write a blog post with your open letter, promote it on Twitter, here, and Reddit, and let it pick up steam that way.&lt;p&gt;Hacker News isn&apos;t a complaint board for YC companies, so start by refactoring your story so that it doesn&apos;t appear like you&apos;re trying to use the site that way.&lt;p&gt;Or, you know, get on with your life. I&apos;ve written off Wakemate. They can keep my $5. Best of luck.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Someone deleted a submission re Wakemate</title><url></url><text>A few minutes ago I stumbled upon a submission chastising WakeMate for still not shipping. There were 6 comments. I hit refresh and the title changed to [dead] and the submission was removed from the front page. What is going on?&lt;p&gt;At this URL the comments can still be found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358309</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>petercooper</author><text>It&apos;s worth having &quot;showdead&quot; set to &quot;yes&quot; on your HN options page for this very reason. It&apos;s still &quot;on the front page&quot; for me, despite being dead :-) You get to see some rather.. interesting things stick around with this option on (and surprisingly little trash, unless you hang around /newest a lot).&lt;p&gt;That aside, there seems to be a lot of assumption that the post was deleted. This &lt;i&gt;may&lt;/i&gt; not be so. Enough &quot;flag&quot;s can do it too, of course, but I get the impression that there are super users who can dead a post in one strike :-)</text></comment>