How can a thread immediately go from unflagged to [flagged][dead]?
I've been refreshing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891742 every few minutes. A minute ago, the thread was fine. Now, it's marked [flagged][dead]. How is this possible? Shouldn't the thread go through a [flagged] phase before becoming [dead]?
I don't know if anyone other than dang knows the actual details, but it's my belief that it takes a fairly small number of flags to kill a story. If something is controversial enough, I believe it could collect enough flags to go [dead] pretty quickly.
Your link does not appear dead to me.
What was the original link?