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by kragen 5585 days ago
There's a censored comment in response here from the original author of the post. Turn on showdead.
3 comments

Resurrecting:

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2 points by agiletortoise 1 hour ago | link [dead]

I expect they are. In retrospect, I should have asked first.

It something like going to a dinner party and having the host throw you out for placing your fork to the left of the plate, because they put them on the right at their house. Runs contrary to expectations.

--agiletortoise

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This doesn't look offensive to me, so I presume it's a glitch. It would be ironic if it was killed because of the signature at the end in violation of local norms. :)

FYI, in this case, HN hung on me and it ended up double-posted, so I deleted the duplicate.
I see many comments like that and I'm always left wondering.

Does this happen when a user deletes their own comment? Or is it only for flagged comments?

Is there any way to see the justification for killing a comment?

I trust HN's moderators, but it makes me uneasy to realize that there is a whole collection of censored comments that I didn't see until now, because I had showdead disabled.

I'm curious about some threads that get killed, too--afaik it can happen due to mod intervention or when the community hits "flag" enough times, but I always wonder which one it was.
Nope, they're just dead.
How do you turn on showdead? Does this require more karma than I have?
There should be a setting in your profile.

I'm not sure if it requires karma.

Sorry, I should have looked a bit harder its right bloody there!