[thaumasiotes]

It looks like there's a slider at the head of the comments section controlling which comments are displayed with their text, which comments are "abbreviated", and which aren't visible at all. The line between abbreviated and hidden is defaulting to a position just less than 1, so a comment with a score of 0 has no representation on the page other than an indicator somewhere in the comment thread saying "[n] hidden comment(s)".

The comment will become visible (in abbreviated form) if you drag that slider over to just less than 0 (and load all the comments).

kstrauser is definitely choosing to see the comment.

[kstrauser]

I’m definitely not. I copied and pasted that link into a freshly cleared out Duck Duck Go browser window on my phone and saw the comment. I can’t reproduce not seeing it in any browser I’ve tried, except where I had an ad blocker installed that hides website comments.

[AlchemistCamp]

Oh the irony. You've dug up a truly horrible comment that Slashdot's own moderation system hid and then shared it to a far larger audience than even unflagged content on Slashdot threads get by posting its direct link to a higher traffic site.

And apparently you've done this out of a belief that such comments shouldn't be discoverable, even by those observing a record of moderation decisions.

Are you similarly upset by HN's "showdead" option? Will you be sharing some truly objectionable comments from here on a large social media account?

[thaumasiotes]

You're linking to the comment's own page. Of course it's visible there. It's the entire content. Navigating to that URL is an explicit request to see that comment and nothing else.

But it's not visible in the comment thread where it was made. How would you see it if you weren't specifically trying to?