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How are so many of these dead? If they are from new accounts, how have the accounts been banned so quickly?


Some sites are autokilled. For example, because they create new accounts to send spam. A few years ago pg posted a list and it was longest than I expected.

Most of the URL shorteners are autokilled, because someone can hide a banned site using it.

And I guess that Youtube has some kind of penalty, because there are a lot of off-topic submissions and many of them are dead, but not all.




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