[PhantomGremlin]

I’ve had multiple comments removed over the years

By "removed" do you mean:

a) "flagged" such that only people who are logged in and have changed their preferences to showdead -> yes can see them?

or b) the words not visible even with showdead -> yes?

I'm curious because my setting is showdead -> yes and I see many otherwise suppressed comments. In fact there are people who are "banned" and I still see their comments (but not possible to reply).