Recently I became aware of the phenomena of content getting flagged and posts going to '[dead]' state immediately after posting it. You can actually change your HN settings to see those posts.

Sure, a lot of them are self-promotions, but there is also a lot of great content that gets lost this way, for seemingly no reason (e.g. I was just following this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808282 when I saw that it got flagged).

Just sharing this so people know how to see these posts if they wanted to.