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These are the important numbers for this topic. Maybe I should’ve posted it in ~charts_and_numbers? Ahaha

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what the hell happened in August 2025, with 82k zombie items?!
also, what is considered a "zombie item?"

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Zombie items are unpaid ones, and they’re messing with the item ID, making it climb when it shouldn’t!

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ah, so someone wanted to claim a specific item number, like #1,000,000;

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Don’t think that’s what happened.

👀 https://beta.predyx.com/market/stacker-news-hit-14m-items-in-2025

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oh wow, what a mess...

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It was that user who came in creating articles and deleting them to win the bet

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