This guy is fantastic. If what he's doing now with the new incubator doesn't work out I hope he considers applying to YC. Living at AOL is at least a good a story as selling cereal.

I saw this linked from the 'the future is specific' light-table thread and thought it deserved a bit more attention.

Maybe it's "too much too soon" from a new account? I think all the submissions I made so far came from technology review articles I've been reading so perhaps PGs code thinks I'm an account created to spam for a particular domain.

Maybe it was the way you phrased your post? The sentence "If you found this interesting you might also enjoy" probably sounded 'botty' to the spam filter.

Aside: There seems to be some poignant commentary crying to be wrested from the above, but I'm unable to pry it off. Anyone else?

Your other comments aren't dead. I'm just guessing that it's a combination of a new account and posting an url. But this is just a guess.

Probably a few people being overeager with the flag link.

That's my best guess. Worst part is, easy probably didn't even know it was dead

Why wouldn't easy have known? easy isn't hellbanned AFAIK.

As far as I can tell the status of a comment as being dead is not apparent to the user who posted it (unless they're not logged in obviously). This is actually quite an elegant way of dealing with trolls if you think about it; instead of knowing they've been banned and trying to game their way around it they assume they are just being ignored and give up.

You can already get smart toilet seats that measure some things, like this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-08/27/content_112112....

I like it though I do think that changing the logo from daily to monthlydo.it and futuredo.it when people select those tabs will cause some folks to forget your url if they didn't bookmark the site on their first visit.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely keep it in mind.