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Usually lame articles are gone within a day. You can tell when all the comments object and eventually people flag and editors go "okay, we'll remove it."

>>kajeco+(OP)
Most articles are gone within a day as they fall off the front page.

>>DarkSh+p1
Yeah, that is correct, but lame articles usually only make it to the "new" page, and never the "real frontpage". I've submitted to HN 2 or 3 times now, and my articles have been killed for lameness.

(In my defense I thought they were good articles. But the system appears to work from my experience.)