[nyellin]

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.

[mcantor]

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.

[steveklabnik]

Nope, they're just dead.