I'm glad it was posted. It allows me to keep up with news (and this crunchpad mess is certainly newsworthy) without having to ever visit techcrunch, and read informed, unbiasedopinion here rather than the moderated thread on TC.

That won't happen. I imagine TC posts have hard-coded protection against being dead'ed too.

TC articles have been killed before.

Automatically by a pileon of user flagging or by manual moderator action?