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		Fixnum on Sept 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Suspicious but well-meaning new spam acco... Not so subtle, but user CANWorkSmart seems to have created a bunch of shills to comment on his (now dead) post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010356. Might be worth it for a mod to kill them off... edit: the '-----' appears in place of the 'reply' link when the post can't be replied to (in this case because the submission is dead?).

genieyclo on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

All posts have that '-----' bit at the end of the comment with font color '#f6f6ef' to hide it after a certain amount of time as that's the background color. I'm not exactly sure why this is though. Perhaps pg could tell us?

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